How did they figure out how the challenger blew up?

Question

They said it was an o ring failure, how did they figure it out when everything was blown to bits

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Answer 1

My uncle was an engineer that worked on the project. This was a known issue that was well identified well in advance of the actual launch. It’s taught as an example of why Groupthink is both a serious problem and difficult to circumvent. Essentially NASA needed a win and the people that mentioned the danger were ignored