Engineer Who Tried To Stop Challenger Disaster Dead At 73
Roger Boisjoly, who died on January 6 at 73-years-old, was an engineer who tried to stop space shuttle Challenger from launching in 1986. Boisjoly was an engineer at solid rocket booster manufacturer Morton Thiokol. He started to warn NASA as early as 1985 that the joints in the boosters could fail in cold weather. He and four other space shuttle engineers argued on the eve of the launch in 1986 ...
Roger Boisjoly, engineer who tried to halt Challenger launch, dies at 73
The 1986 explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and killed seven astronauts shocked the nation,...
Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch
The night before the 1986 explosion, Boisjoly and four others argued that joints in the shuttle's boosters couldn't withstand a cold-weather launch. The 1986 explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and killed seven astronauts shocked the nation, but for one rocket engineer the tragedy became a personal burden and created a lifelong quest to challenge the bureaucratic ethics that ...
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