Space Shuttle Challenger

Rogers, William P., et al Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident United States Government Printing Office June 6, 1986 256 pages The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, chaired by former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, investigated the circumstances surrounding the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger shortly after liftoff on January 28, 1986. The Commission was established in February, 1986, pursuant to Executive Order 12546, and it issued its final report in June, 1986. …

…able to present a history of prior problems with the O-rings, and show a lack of steps in assuring the complete solution to this problem. The commission completed its assigned task of finding the problem and proposing a solution to assure that a national tragedy of this magnitude would not occur in the future and did an excellent job of presenting it in the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident.