An engineer dies in peace
March 22, 2016 5:46 AM Subscribe
In the days before the space shuttle Challenger burned up in mid-air, killing all seven astronauts on board, Ebeling and four other engineers had pleaded with NASA to delay the launch....Ebeling even authored an alarmed memo detailing the problems with the rings. Its subject line read, bluntly, "Help!"
But the engineers were overruled. On January 28, 1986, he and his colleagues watched in helpless horror as the shuttle and its crew turned to ashes in the sky. (SLWaPo)
This post was deleted for the following reason: We have an earlier post on this over here -- taz
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