
The Challenger Disaster
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The Moon Landers - The O Ring
The first thing the rogers commission does, and sort of the most important, as they figure out the cause of the crash, is huge. They have tons of people come and testify. And this is amazing t v moment where richard fineman, this physicist guy, gets an o ring from his friend's car. The night before the launch, there was a tella conference between the managers and the engineers in which the engineers said, it's too cold. We should delay the launch. What? So it turns out that nassau had outsourced the construction of the solid booster rockets to a military company,. same way we out source everything to locked martin or whatever.
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