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Posted: 3:06 PM Feb 7, 2012
Man Who Warned of Challenger Disaster Dies at 73
The man who warned his company of an equipment problem on the Challenger has passed away.
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This image provided by NASA shows the liftoff of the Delta II rocket with it's NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft payload is seen shortly after launch Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. NPP is the first NASA satellite mission to address the challenge of acquiring a wide range of land, ocean, and atmospheric measurements for Earth system science while simultaneously preparing to address operational requirements for weather forecasting. (AP Photo/NASA - Bill Ingalls)
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NEPHI, Utah (AP) -- The man who warned his employer of the
equipment quirk that led to the deadly explosion of the space
shuttle Challenger has died. Roger Boisjoly was 73.
A funeral home in Boisjoly's hometown of Nephi, Utah, confirmed
his Jan. 6 death with The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Boisjoly had written an ominous memo to his supervisors at
Morton Thiokol six months before the shuttle launched on Jan. 28,
1986. He told the company that cold weather could compromise the
seals connecting sections of the rocket boosters they manufactured.
Boisjoly and four other engineers pleaded with supervisors for a
delay the night before the launch, as temperatures dipped below
freezing.
The warning was ignored, and the shuttle exploded 73 seconds
after launch. Seven crew members, including teacher Christa
McAuliffe, were killed.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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