4 April 2021 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 29 April 2022The Space Shuttle Challenger was scheduled for its tenth and final flight on 28 January 1986 on pad 39B at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Low temperatures were forecast the night before the launch, and engineers from Morton Thiokol, the subcontractor that designed the booster rockets, recommended not to launch below 53°F. NASA disregarded this recommendation. Just over one minute into the flight, the Challenger suffered from a catastrophic explosion, killing everyone on board. The two principle characters we will look at in this entry are: Allan McDonald was the director …
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