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Topic: Bob Ebeling, Thiokol engineer (1927-2016)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-21-2016 09:52 PM
   
Bob Ebeling, one of five booster engineers at Morton Thiokol who tried to stop the launch of space shuttle Challenger on the ill-fated STS-51L mission in 1986, died on Monday (March 21), reports NPR. He was 89. Bob Ebeling spent a third of his life consumed with guilt about the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. But at the end of his life, his family says, he was finally able to find peace."It was as if he got permission from the world," says his daughter Leslie Ebeling Serna. "He was able to let that part of his life go." Ebeling died Monday at age 89 at in Brigham City, Utah, after a long illness, according to his daughter Kathy Ebeling. ...Ebeling was the first to sound the alarm the morning before the Challenger launch. He called his boss, Allan McDonald, who was Thiokol's representative at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
Daniel on the Moon
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posted 03-21-2016 10:07 PM
He will be remembered as making one of the most significant contributions to the future of all space programs, a realization that fact based doubt trumps schedules and politics when lives are on the line. |
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