Introduction
Challenger was the second shuttle orbiter to be placed into service after Columbia and was constructed using a body frame that had initially been produced for use as a test article. Its maiden voyage was on April 4, 1983, and made eight subsequent round trips to low earth orbit before it was destroyed during launch for its tenth mission 51-L, on January 28, 1986. It is one of two space shuttles destroyed in an accident during a mission, the other being the Space Shuttle Columbia.
How did this happen? And what let this happen? It was the failure of not only the flight system of the SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) but also the management system at NASA and Morton Thiokol the company that make the SRBs. The management system of the two companies never had a good way to share there ideas.
Management
Temperatures for the next launch date were predicted to be in the low 20°s. This prompted Alan McDonald (Director of the Solid Rocket Motors Project) to ask his engineers at......

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