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The design and construction of Booster of challenger space shuttle was done by Morton Thiokol
in 1974.
The design was similar to the titian missile, but in this case there were solid booster that need a
field joints. Engineering design should base on safety, and zero percent ignorance of any issue
either it is in small or in large segment. So there are some issues are neglected in challenger,
these issues are given below.
Erosion of O-ring is neglected because they think solid booster is used only for few minutes and
in this time erosion is not a bed thing. The Thiokol engineers redesign the field joints without O-
rings.
Design failure impacts on the on future mission that are linked with the previous mission, so in
future mission more concentration and redesigning is required to avoid from more accidents.