Background:
Challanger Space Shuttle disaster happened in January 28 at 11:38 am. According to the report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shutte Challanger accident, shortly after 1 am ET on January 27, NASA’s booster rocket manager, Larry Wear, asks officials of rocket maker Morton Thiokol in Utah whether cold weather on January 28 would present a problem for launch.
They got the answer by late afternoon after the midlevel NASA managers are on the phone with Thiokol managers, who point out that the booster’s ruberry O-rings, which seal in hot gases, might be affected by cold. This concern brings in officials from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center which buys the rockets from Thiokol and readies them for launch. Marshall managers decide a three-way telephone conference needed between NASA, Thiokol engineers and managers in Alabama, Florida and Utah.
In the first conference Thiokol tells NASA the lauch should be delayed until noon or afternoon when the weather......

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Title: A 10-Year Retrospective Of The Challanger Space Shuttle Disaster: Was It Group Think?
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