I was working at Morton Thiokol as a preliminary design engineer when the Challenger accident happened. I had only been there 3 months and it was my first job out of college. I remember a lot more talk on that morning being about how Al McDonald was going to get fired as soon as the shuttle made orbit for not signing off on the flight readiness statement the night before. In the few weeks after the disaster I heard more about Boisjoly. Mostly how people thought he was starting to have a nervous breakdown because he felt so bad that he was unable to get NASA to take the o-ring cold issue seriously enough in the months leading up to the launch.
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Reply to Netflix Special Challenger The Final Flight - curious omission. by GhostRiders
I was working at Morton Thiokol as a preliminary design engineer when the Challenger accident happened. I had only been there 3 months and it was my first job out of college. I remember a lot more talk on that morning being about how Al McDonald was going to get fired as soon as the shuttle made orbit for not signing off on the flight readiness statement the night before. In the few weeks after the disaster I heard more about Boisjoly. Mostly how people thought he was starting to have a nervous breakdown because he felt so bad that he was unable to get NASA to take the o-ring cold issue seriously enough in the months leading up to the launch.