By Allan J. McDonald,James R. Hansen
On a chilly January morning in 1986, NASA introduced the gap go back and forth Challenger, regardless of warnings opposed to doing so by means of a lot of persons, together with Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on dwell tv moments after release continues to be an indelible photograph within the nation’s collective reminiscence.
In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a talented engineer and govt, relives the tragedy from the place he stood at release keep watch over heart. As he fought to attract realization to the genuine purposes at the back of the catastrophe, he used to be the single one particular for retribution through either NASA and his service provider, Morton Thiokol, Inc., makers of the shuttle's stable rocket boosters. during this whistle-blowing but rigorous and fair-minded ebook, McDonald, with the help of the world over exclusive aerospace historian James R. Hansen, addresses all of the criteria that resulted in the coincidence, a few of that have been by no means incorporated in NASA's Failure group file submitted to the Presidential Commission.
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings is the 1st examine the Challenger tragedy and its aftermath from a person who was once at the within, well-known the capability catastrophe, and attempted to avoid it. It additionally addresses the early warnings of very serious particles concerns from the 1st post-Challenger flights, which eventually led to the lack of Columbia a few fifteen years later.
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