fuel tank, rupturing the tank and allowing hydrogen and oxygen in their liquid fuel states to mix - causing the explosion that tore the shuttle apart.
That these O-rings could fail was not, as noted above, a surprise to a number of NASA engineers, who had indeed tried to serve as whistleblowers to the extent that they alerted others in the space program that the shuttle might well n
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