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Each week we decide who's to blame for historical tragedy.

And each week you tell us if we got it right. My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and this is the

aftermath.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist aftermath.

Today we'll be talking to Aerospace Consultant and author of Truth, Lies, and O-rings

inside the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Alan McDonald.

Let's hear what he has to say about the Challenger disaster.

Hi Alan, how are you?

Oh, just fine. How are you?

I'm good. We're so excited to have you on the show.

Well, I'm glad to be there.

If I can provide any knowledge on Challenger, I guess, is your discussion?

So maybe we can just jump right in.

And I was wondering if you could start off by giving us a sense of what the NASA program and space travel was in the early 80s.

Well, in the early 80s, the intent was to provide a international space station eventually in orbit and that space station

would be essentially assembled by using the space shuttle.

The space shuttle also had some other commitments to make.

And one of those was that the administration in 1986, in fact, declared that the nation was going to go on to a shuttle-only policy. what that meant that all of the other expendable launch

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