13 Jun
2013
13 Jun
'13
2:07 p.m.
At 08:45 AM 6/12/2013, geneb wrote:
He's also the guy that figured out what caused the
seal failure that lead to the Challenger disaster...by dropping a chunk of the seal
material in a glass of icewater during a meeting he attended about it.
No, there was a NASA engineer who'd tried to blow the whistle on
that a year or two prior, although Feynman did explain it to the committee:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Challenger_disaster>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Challenger_disaster
- John