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On Saturday March 6, 2021, an 83-year-old man living in Ogden, Utah died from the effects of a fall. His name was Allan J. McDonald, and you may never have heard of him, but he did something remarkable. Allan McDonald received a degree in chemical engineering in 1959 from Montana State University, then went to work for Morton-Thiokol, who manufactured the rockets for the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile and later, the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) used by NASA in its space shuttle. A...

First round of competition which would begin the following morning. so stinky was lowered into the water for a test drive. at the first public unveiling. it began leaking almost immediately. it was bad. it was swift. and it was nearly catastrophic. >> stinky wasnt properly responding to the controls. >> we were getting false connections. like sometimes it would go and sometimes it wouldnt. >> so were telling it to go forward and the robot is going side ways. >> hold it down, opened up the case. ...

Challenger itself was a high profile tragedy for a couple of reasons. for one thing it marked the first civilian in space, christine max cula, the social studies teacher was on board, also nasa decided to pipe in a live feed, so if you talk to many americans in their 30s they have a clear memory of those as they watched it live. cold air may have something to do with the disaster, the cold weather opened up the o rings, 30 seconds into its liftoff, 10 miles above the atlantic ocean. it was a rea...

Program. and i actually ended up canceling -- i was getting ready to fly. it was a big impact on myself. and it did change the space program. nasa had to learn a very tough lesson and had to do a lot of introspective look at what they were doing and came out stronger as a result and the shuttle program carried on. megyn: theres with a problem with the o-rings, defective o-rings, which are rubbery seals in the rocket boosters that flank the spacecraft. they were defective and allowed hot gases an...