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Feb 6, 2012 · Roger Boisjoly was a booster rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol in Utah in January, 1986, when he and four colleagues became embroiled in the fatal decision to launch the Space...
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Roger Boisjoly discusses in seven sections his attempts to avert the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Boisjoly has spent his entire career making well-informed decisions based on his understanding of and belief in a professional engineer's rights and responsibilities.
Such a catastrophic event occurred six months later resulting in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster . This memo followed his investigation of a solid rocket booster (SRB) from a shuttle flight in January 1985.
The tenth anniversary of the Challenger disaster in January of 1996 brought renewed attention to Roger Boisjoly, the engineer who is perhaps the most widely known whistleblower. Many people are now familiar with details about how the launch went forward in unusually cold temperatures against the recommendation of the engineers.
Roger Boisjoly, NASA engineer and whistleblower who tried to warn his employer about the looming danger posed by the O-rings of the shuttle Challenger prior to the 1986 disaster, died on January 6th. He was 73.
ABSTRACT. This case study focuses on Roger Boisjoly's attempt to prevent the launch of the Challenger and subsequent quest to set the record straight despite negative consequences. Boisjoly's experiences before and after the Challenger disaster raise numerous ethical issues that are integral to any explanation of the disaster and applicable to
Feb 4, 2012 · By Douglas Martin. Feb. 3, 2012. Six months before the space shuttle Challenger exploded over Florida on Jan. 28, 1986, Roger Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo. He warned that if the weather...
