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Challenger disaster

JAN 28, 2016
Physics Today

On this day 30 years ago, the Challenger space shuttle exploded. Irwin Goodwin wrote in “Challenger Calamity: Physicists Turn Sleuths in ‘Whatdunit’” on how physicists such as Richard Feynman used their skills in order to find out what happened in this August 1986 article. This piece will be free to read for the following week (pdf only). Press on the link to read it. http://ow.ly/XDAz8

Date in History: 28 January 1986

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