They said it was an o ring failure, how did they figure it out when everything was blown to bits
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That’s the thing about explosions, they blow things into smaller bits but nothing ceases to be
One of the first things to happen was for ships to be sent out to start recovering debris, specifically focused on finding the parts of the right solid rocket booster where they had seen things get weird
This is something that the NTSB does for any plane crash(often around the world), they gather all the debris and lay it out in it’s original configuration. Once you have that you can start seeing what’s bent/cracked/burned in a way that wasn’t due to the ending crash
In the case of Challenger they managed to recover a lot of the right booster including a part that has been melted through by the hot exhaust plume coming out the side. The whole thing was broken into smaller pieces than it started but a quick explosion and a sustained fire jet do very different things to metal
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