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The technical failure of the Space Shuttle Challenger was caused by an O-ring seal in a solid rocket booster compromised by cold launch conditions.
disintegrated in the late morning of January 28, 1986 — just over a minute after liftoff — with the vehicle breaking apart at approximately 11:39 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (16:39:13 UTC) according to...
Conspiracy theories that the have resurfaced repeatedly since the 1986 disaster, driven by grief, gaps in early official communication, and human tendencies toward pattern-seeking during trauma . Over...