Challenger: A Rush To Launch

[Winston]

Challenger: A Rush To Launch [excellent in many ways including the decision to launch chain of events]



Challenger: The Untold Story [starting at 48:52, the SRB engineers' perspective at Thiokol)



Roger Boisjoly, Engineer Who Warned of Challenger Shuttle Disaster, Dies at 73
February 09, 2012

https://www.space.com/14522-roger-boisjoly-shuttle-challenger-disaster-obit.html
About six months before the disaster, Boisjoly — an engineer at Morton Thiokol, the firm that built the boosters — wrote a memo warning that freezing temperatures could lead to this nightmare scenario.

Challenger Accident Investigation Report

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/SignificantIncidents/assets/rogers_commission_report.pdf
Columbia Accident Investigation Report

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-107/investigation/CAIB_lowres_full.pdf
Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report

https://www.history.nasa.gov/columbia/columbiacrewsurvival.pdf

 

[vcp]

I was just watching a Challenger documentary, I think on Netflix, just titled "Challenger", and I was surprised that it had not one single mention of Boisjoly.

 

[aerostadt]

I was just watching a Challenger documentary, I think on Netflix, just titled "Challenger", and I was surprised that it had not one single mention of Boisjoly.

At the time the principal players were in the news everywhere. It is now 35 years later and all of that is a distant memory.