What was the fatal flaw that caused the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?
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There is already the technical ELI5 commented, so let me offer the organizational ELI5:
You know how every January the President goes on TV and tells everyone how nice it is to live in America? Well that year when it was January, the President was going to say how great NASA is and how good spaceships they make. The Challenger spaceship was already delayed three times. If it was delayed again, the President’s friends would make fun of him because his spaceship doesn’t work. So NASA really made a pinky promise that this January they would fly the spaceship. The weather was very very icy that day and nobody was sure if the spaceship is safe to fly with that weather. Now, as people have doctors when they get sick from cold, there are some doctors for the machines. They are called engineers. NASA asked these machine doctors what to do. Because the machine doctors were afraid they would lose their job, they did not say that the spaceship will explode. They just said they are not sure what is happening. So NASA decided to pray very much to God that the spaceship will not explode the next day. But even if God wanted to help them, the spaceship was already damaged from the bad weather the previous day. So when they tried to fly the spaceship it exploded.
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