Richard C. Cook Appears at Chapman University Symposium on Challenger Disaster
Friday, January 28th, 2011Space shuttle Challenger disaster revisted at symposium January 27, 2011 tags: anniversary, leadership, NASA, Space Shuttle Challenger by chapmannews Failed O-rings, damaged fuel tanks and ice debris are all parts in the tragic story that led to the space shuttle Challenger disaster 25 years ago this week. But the bigger lesson of that episode in the [...]


In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."
