Mission 51C in January 1985 raised the most worrying issue with the frailty of the O-rings (Credits: NASA). "It was intended," read the Rogers report, "that the O-rings be actuated and sealed by combustion gas pressure displacing the putty in the space between the motor segments. The displacement of the putty would act like a piston and ...
Engineer Who Opposed Challenger Launch Offers Personal Look at Tragedy. On January 28, 1986, as the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up over the Atlantic Ocean 73 seconds into its flight, Allan McDonald looked on in shock -- despite the fact that the night before, he had refused to sign the launch recommendation over safety concerns.
The Rogers Commission elaborated a report (Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident 1986) with all the findings. The commission determined that the disintegration began with the failure of an O-ring seal in the solid rocket booster due to the unusually cold temperature ((-0.6) Celsius degrees; (30.92) Fahrenheit degrees) during the …
The space shuttle Endeavour was grounded indefinitely Friday so NASA can solve the problem of singed O-rings discovered on the solid rocket boosters after two recent missions.
Messier 57 (The Ring Nebula) M57, or the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The tiny white dot in the center of the nebula is the star's hot core, called a white dwarf. M57 is about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and is best observed during August. Discovered by the French astronomer ...
February 26, 1986. The management of Morton Thiokol Inc., apparently responding to pressure from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, recommended launching the space shuttle ...
March 16, 1986. IN JULY 1985, shortly after starting my job as a budget analyst at NASA, I wrote a memo summarizing my concerns about the safety of the solid rocket booster used in the space ...
March 23, 1986. Despite longstanding concerns about the design of the space shuttle's O-rings, NASA chose not to monitor their performance in flight, even though, according to rocket engineers, it ...
TIL NASA Managers claimed that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance of a catastrophic failure aboard Challenger, but Richard Feynman discovered that NASA's Engineers estimated the chance of a catastrophe at closer to 1 in 200. ... The brittle O-Ring may or may not have made the O-rings shrink, but that theory was mainly made popular due to Feynman ...
Utah engineers' warning was ignored before Challenger explosion 30 years ago. Morton Thiokol's experts said cold temperatures in January 1986 could trigger a "catastrophe of the highest order," but they were overruled by NASA. This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2016, and information in the article may be outdated.
After a Technical Information Meeting at MSFC held December 2 thru 4, 1981, Fred Policelli, the Hercules FWC SRM Technical Manager, invented the Capture Feature which greatly reduces joint rotation and eliminates the O-ring problem. The Capture Feature is the major element of the redesigned SRM joint and flies on the Shuttle today.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a fatal accident on January 28, 1986, in the United States space program.The Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the death of all seven crew members, as the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft in flight. The mission, designated STS-51-L, was the tenth flight for the …
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On October 1, 1985 - about four months before the Challenger launch - Ebeling wrote a memo his Morton-Thiokol boss, Allan J. McDonald, that began with "HELP!" The engineer went on to express his concerns about task force delays and described them as a "red flag." From there, Morton-Thiokol reached out to NASA about ongoing O-ring problems and scheduling …
The telescope's first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. These listed targets below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra the observatory has ...
NEW YORK -- NASA was told critical O-ring joint seals on space shuttle booster rockets could fail at temperatures of 50 degrees almost six months before the Challenger disaster, a document ...
D-Ring Structure. Faint features in Saturn's innermost ring, the D ring, are brought into view in this strongly contrast-enhanced Cassini image. A few background stars are visible through the sheer ring as squiggly star trails. The inner region of the C ring is seen at upper left. The faint diagonal wedge shape on the left side of the image was ...
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The design called for this gap to be filled by two rubbery O rings meant to prevent gases burning at 5,900 degrees Fahrenheit from leaking out the rocket. The wider the gap, the greater the danger ...
The night before the disaster— as engineers tried to convince their managers at Thiokol and NASA not to launch— someone pointed out that there had been signs of O-ring distress on a shuttle that was launched at 75 degrees. It's true— there had been issues at 75 degrees. And at 70 degrees. And at 63 degrees.
At 11:39 a.m. EST, the Challenger and her seven-member crew were lost when a ruptured O-ring in the right Solid Rocket Booster caused an explosion 73 seconds after launch. Photo by NASA/UPI .
When an O-ring is cooled near, but not beyond, its Tg, the cold O-ring, once compressed, will take longer than normal to return to its original shape. And as we know O-rings (and all other seals) work by creating positive pressure against a surface thereby preventing leaks and This was famously demonstrated physics professor Richard Feynman ...
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Bob Ebeling, who died Monday at age 89, was one of the few engineers who warned NASA not to launch the Challenger space shuttle on that fateful day in 1986.
There are two O-rings, the primary and secondary O-rings. The gap at each O-ring in the aft field joint is different, the gap at the primary O- ring is approximately 0.029 inches, and the secondary is approximately 0.017 inches. During launch the O-ring should move to seal the delta gap opening, and return to its proper state.