andhravodu Posted March 22, 2016 Report Posted March 22, 2016 Bob Ebeling spent a third of his life consumed with guilt about the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. But at the end of his life, his family says, he was finally able to find peace. Ebeling was one of five booster rocket engineers at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol who tried to stop the 1986 Challenger launch. They worried that cold temperatures overnight — the forecast said 18 degrees — would stiffen the rubber O-ring seals that prevent burning rocket fuel from leaking out of booster joints. "We all knew if the seals failed, the shuttle would blow up," said engineer Roger Boisjoly in a 1986 interview with NPR's Daniel Zwerdling. Ebeling was the first to sound the alarm the morning before the Challenger launch. He called his boss, Allan McDonald, who was Thiokol's representative at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three decades ago, McDonald organized a teleconference with NASA officials, Thiokol executives and the worried engineers. Ebeling helped assemble the data that demonstrated the risk. Boisjoly argued for a launch delay. At first, the Thiokol executives agreed and said they wouldn't approve the launch. "My God, Thiokol," responded Lawrence Mulloy of NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center. "When do you want me to launch? Next April?" Despite hours of argument and reams of data, the Thiokol executives relented. McDonald says the data were absolutely clear, but politics and pressure interfered.
ARYA Posted March 22, 2016 Report Posted March 22, 2016 hello arya :) em tinnav? egg white and coffee :) u?
errigaadu Posted March 22, 2016 Report Posted March 22, 2016 full sugars :( andulo konchem salt esukoni tindi anta, koti pilla
ARYA Posted March 22, 2016 Report Posted March 22, 2016 andulo konchem salt esukoni tindi anta, koti pillano thanks
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ARYA Posted March 22, 2016 Report Posted March 22, 2016 nuvvu kaadu, aa koti esukundi anta kothi recipies maku voddu :P
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