My dad worked for Morton Thiokol at the time. The company in Utah that manufactured

Sep 21, 2020
7:34:55am

BYU '80 Intervention Needed

The solid rocket boosters. Some interesting stories from that time period. Needless to say they felt as though NASA threw them under the bus with their bad decisions

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The Challenger Shuttle Documentary on Netflix is flat out amazing.

ordinary tri guy

9/21/20 7:31am

My dad worked for Morton Thiokol at the time. The company in Utah that manufactured

BYU '80

9/21/20 7:34am

I 100% feel they did. NASA was CTA from the Government.

ordinary tri guy

9/21/20 7:35am

Interesting that the stories are still around

BYU '80

9/21/20 7:59am

I work here now (Northrop Grumman now) and yes we hear the story a LOT. Lessons

rggee

9/21/20 7:36am

I remember that they were filing us into a classroom as the Shuttle was taking off...

Coug

9/21/20 7:50am

I was just a 10th grade kid in German class

Belboz

9/21/20 8:00am

I was in German as well...Student Teacher teaching...Real teacher came running

Xenon

9/21/20 9:21am

I hadn’t heard they found the cockpit with remains.

BW84

9/21/20 7:56am

I read that they are confident that most of them survived until impact into the

kd_coug

9/21/20 8:08am

Somehow that is even more tragic to me. Dying in an instant is one thing- but knowing for

thaws

9/21/20 9:02am

IDK this either...I'm going to look more into it all. I wonder what would keep

ordinary tri guy

9/21/20 10:27am

I don't believe the space shuttle had a launch abort/escape system

rggee

9/21/20 10:40am

Link

rggee

9/21/20 10:42am

My class combined with another 5th grade class to watch the launch.

Jeffacka

9/21/20 8:09am

I was a senior in high school and worked in the library. Several teachers came

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