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Truths, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2009
This very detailed, somewhat tendentious, book is the first to be written about the 28 January 1986 accident that destroyed the Space Shuttle Challenger and killed its seven-person crew by an individual directly involved in the fateful decision to launch the Shuttle on an exceptionally cold Florida morning. The accident was caused by the failure of an 'O-ring' seal at a joint between two segments on one of the solid rocket boosters (SRB) used to give the Shuttle most of its initial takeoff thrust. The seal failed to prevent hot gas from the rocket's combustion from impinging on the shuttle's external tank as the vehicle climbed away from the launch pad.
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