The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight on January 28, 1986. A Presidential Commission was formed to investigate the cause of the tragedy. Physicist Richard Feynman played a crucial... Read more »
The physicist’s investigation into the 1986 Space Shuttle tragedy represents a compelling example of scientific inquiry applied to a real-world problem. His simple, yet elegant experiment demonstrating the failure of the O-rings... Read more »
