 | United States. Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident - 1986 - 792 pages
...participating investigative agencies is that the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger was caused by a failure in the joint between the two lower segments...joint during the propellant burn of the rocket motor. The evidence assembled by the Commission indicates that no other element of the Space Shuttle system... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology - 1986 - 788 pages
...Investigative agencies 1s that the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger was caused by a failure 1n the joint between the two lower segments of the right...hot gases from leaking through the Joint during the propel lant burn of the rocket motor. The evidence assembled by the Commission Indicates that no other... | |
 | 1995 - 724 pages
...participating investigative agencies is that the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger was caused by a failure in the joint between the two lower segments...joint during the propellant burn of the rocket motor. The evidence assembled by the Commission indicates that no other element of the Space Shuttle system... | |
 | John X. Wang, Marvin L. Roush - 2000 - 268 pages
...commission formed to study the disaster concluded in its report that the principal cause of the explosion was "a failure in the joint between the two lower segments of the right Solid Rocket Motor," and specifically "the destruction of the seals that are intended to prevent hot gases from leaking... | |
 | Roberta Ann Johnson - 2003 - 190 pages
...6, 1986, that the "loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger was caused by a failure in the joint. . . . The specific failure was the destruction of the seals...joint during the propellant burn of the rocket motor" (Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger 1986: 40). The public would come to learn... | |
 | Joseph M. Kizza - 2007 - 375 pages
...commission and other investigative agencies found that the loss of the Challenger was the result of a failure in the joint between the two lower segments of the right solid rocket motor. More specifically, the seals that prevent hot gases from leaking through the joint during the propellant... | |
 | Lawrence M. Salinger - 2005 - 1013 pages
...the O-ring pressure seal in the spacecraft's right solid rocket booster. O-ring seals are designed to prevent hot gases from leaking through the joint during the propellant burn of the rocket motor. However, almost immediately after takeoff the O-ring seals were destroyed allowing hot gases to leak... | |
 | 2005 - 758 pages
...accident for several months) and participating investigative agencies is that the accident was caused by a failure in the joint between the two lower segments of the right sol id rocket motor. The specific failure was the destruction of the seals that are in tended to prevent... | |
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Challenger was caused by a failure in the joint between the two lower segments of the right Solid Rocket Motor. The specific failure was the destruction of the seals that are intended to prevent hot gases from leaking through the joint during the propellant... 
