Roger Boisjoly accurately predicted this event and tried to stop it, but was ignored.
Roger Boisjoly accurately predicted this event and tried to stop it, but was ignored. A speech delivered in response to this event stated that "the future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave," and was authored by Peggy Noonan. The Morton Thiokol Chemical Corporation was blamed for this event by the Rogers Commission investigating it, which included among its members Richard Feynman. Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe was killed in this event, which was found to have been caused by the failure of an O-ring weakened by low temperatures at Cape Canaveral. For 10 points, name this 1986 disaster which killed seven astronauts after a space shuttle exploded.
Roger Boisjoly accurately predicted this event and tried to stop it, but was ignored.
Challenger disaster [accept equivalents such as the explosion of the Challenger or the Challenger accident; accept OV-099 in place of Challenger; accept STS-51-L (the formal name of the mission)]