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Remembering the Challenger shuttle Explosion;Contents;1. Introduction;The space shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28th 1986,when Space Shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51-L) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. ;The challenger space shuttle went to nine successful space flight missions before the disaster. A little over one minute after takeoff, the shuttle began breaking apart, and eventually the spacecraft reached complete structural failure and crashed. But what exactly caused the space shuttle to explode? （outer space universe, 2011）;2. Originating cause of explosion;The NASA investigational commissions report on the incident cited the cause of the disaster as a failure of an O-ring seal in the solid-fuel rocket on the Space Shuttle Challengers right side. The faulty design of the seal coupled with the unusually cold weather of the launch date, let hot gases leak through the joint. This allowed booster rocket flames to pass through the failed seal, further enlarging the small hole. ;Ultimately, the flames proceeded to burn through the Space Shuttle Challenger‘s external fuel tank and through one of the supports that attached the booster to the side of the tank. The booster broke loose and collided with the tank, piercing the fuel tank’s side. Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuels from the tank and booster mixed and ignited，causing the challenger to tear apart.;A special commission, named the Rogers commission, was tasked with finding out more information surrounding the causes of the disaster. They identified another contributing factor to be the culture of the NASA organization at the time, as well as some of the decision-making processes used.; 3. Discussion of ethic issue ;January 22nd;Roger Boisjoly : an engineering, he tried to stop shuttle challenger launch;“We have backup O-ring for every O-ring, it is unlikely for the backups to fail as well ;He argued that the estimates of re