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Roger Mark Boisjoly (; April 25, 1938 – January 6, 2012) was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger the day before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather.

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  • Roger Boisjoly
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  • Roger Mark Boisjoly (; April 25, 1938 – January 6, 2012) was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger the day before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather.
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  • Engineering
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  • 1938-04-25(xsd:date)
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  • Project manager of the solid fuel boosters of the Shuttle Program System
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  • Roger Boisjoly testifies before Congress on the Shuttle disaster, 1986
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  • Lowell, Massachusetts
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  • 2012-01-06(xsd:date)
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  • Roger Mark Boisjoly
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  • American
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  • Roger Mark Boisjoly (; April 25, 1938 – January 6, 2012) was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger the day before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather.
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