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Mystery and Revolution in Science (with Mark Fox)

The Mark Divine Show

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The Case of the Solar Rockaboosters

"There's a whole lot more that was behind the decisions and stuff," he says. "The O rings failed on the boosters, but there is, it's not what you heard in the news." The number one issue on the program at the time was the turbine blades on the main engines of the orbiter. Ronald Reagan pointed his finger at Rocketdyne when they spent $2 billion to fix them.

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