The challenger disaster richard feynman biography
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After the space shuttle Challenger and its crew were destroyed in a fiery, catastrophic explosion on January 28, 1986, NASA appointed members of the Rogers Commission to investigate the cause of the disaster.
When he was asked to be a part of this commission, Feynman rather reluctantly accepted.
The challenger disaster richard feynman biography
Little did he know that he would be the one person to discover the exact cause of the explosion.
Feynman was always the inquisitive type; he had to have the facts. To find out what happened to the shuttle, he went straight to the people who put the shuttle together.
He learned many things from these people that would help him to discover the cause of the explosion; and also information that helped him realize what a risky business flying a shuttle really is. NASA officials said that the chance of failure of the shuttle was about 1 in 100,000; Feynman found that this number was actually closer to 1 in