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7th August

This is a cross-sectional diagram of the failure of the joints between solid rocket booster segments that caused the challenger disaster.

challenger fire fuel solid nasa disaster rocket shuttle space explosion

Comments

theradRussian 10th August

Yes, the entire team of engineers warned the (Thiokol, not NASA) admin of the issue the night before. It was a known issue but it wasn't seen as urgent until they learned of the extra-cold-temp launch. The admin disregarded them beacause they didn't think the data showed a correlation between o-ring failures and temperature. They told NASA it was fine to launch.
Vinnycat 9th August

Thier was an engineer that forwarned it would happen because of the cold morning opening the gap the seal was supposed to seal (tollarences of stuff that go throuh extreme temp changes is a b!tch to get right) so the already stiff seal burned up and failed, he was ingnored of course because "they had a scedual to keep, and everything would be fine"
theradRussian 8th August

Gel actually does work pretty well due to not being able to melt + increase in viscosity at higher temps
AuricKerg 8th August

btw what ryker probably means is gel probably substitutes the putty best in tpt
AuricKerg 8th August

almost big bird
theradRussian 8th August

Verycreativedude: something something "no known protection other than to prevent the incident entirely"
wisco11 8th August

i saw red and blue, thought pressure, thought "challenger deep" and then thought, "wait wtf SRB" and then realized
Verycreativedude 8th August

rykerbebe: brother, this is a rocket and GEL is doing NOTHING against PLSM and considering irl, that would suck.
rykerbebe 8th August

gel is best replacement to the putty

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