02-01-2016, 08:20 AM
January 28, 1986 was a Tuesday and I think we found a TV at the office on Long Island
I remember reading about one or more people at the pre-launch discussion voicing objections to the launch with the overnight subfreezing temperature, but not certain if the O-rings (a seal which looks like a condom or a roundish washer) were mentioned at that time.
NPR.ORG has this:
The night before the launch, Ebeling and four other engineers at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol had tried to stop the launch. Their managers and NASA overruled them.
At some point in my life I concluded the name Challenger was too problematic to naming another one the same.
Tangent; I can not find the "other Challengers" of the preceeding paragraph but I did find an interesting article that people's memories change over time.
Search for "the Challenger Study" which contains "... rather than suddenly realizing that they had misremembered, they often persisted in believing their current memory.”
I remember reading about one or more people at the pre-launch discussion voicing objections to the launch with the overnight subfreezing temperature, but not certain if the O-rings (a seal which looks like a condom or a roundish washer) were mentioned at that time.
NPR.ORG has this:
The night before the launch, Ebeling and four other engineers at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol had tried to stop the launch. Their managers and NASA overruled them.
At some point in my life I concluded the name Challenger was too problematic to naming another one the same.
Tangent; I can not find the "other Challengers" of the preceeding paragraph but I did find an interesting article that people's memories change over time.
Search for "the Challenger Study" which contains "... rather than suddenly realizing that they had misremembered, they often persisted in believing their current memory.”