What was the fatal flaw that caused the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?
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p/PerturbedHamster gave an excellent physical answer, but there was also a flaw in the may that people behaved. It’s actually a much bigger flaw, and it’s a lesson that a five year old can understand and remember.
The second flaw was giving in to peer pressure. The people who were in charge were told that it was dangerous to take off in cold weather, but they wanted to look good. They were afraid of being called wimps by the people in congress, who can be bullies and like to take people’s lunch money away. They let their fear control them and made bad decisions.
The people built the rocket knew that it shouldn’t take off in the cold, so it wasn’t really a flaw. The flaw was that the people in charge used the rocket when they shouldn’t. This is what grownups mean when they talk about “using a tool inappropriately.”
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