finally free from guilt over challenger disaster, an engineer dies in peacefinally free from guilt over challenger disaster, an engineer dies in peacefinally free from guilt over challenger disaster, an engineer dies in peace

\"Why me?
When Bob Ebeling saw God, he intended to ask him this way: \"Why am I?
You chose a loser.
\"For 30 years, Ebeling, a former rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton tiokor, has been overwhelmed by his own grief and guilt about the disaster that failed to stop.
A few days before the Challenger space shuttle was burned in the middle.
All seven astronauts on board were killed, and four other engineers asked NASA to postpone the launch.
They worry about whether the rubber will
In the cold winter, the ring on the shuttle\'s booster rocket will seal properly.
Ebeling even wrote a shocking memo detailing the ring issue.
Its theme is \"help!
But the engineers were rejected.
When the space shuttle and crew turned to ashes in the air in January 28, 1986, he and his colleagues looked helplessly in horror.
\"I think this is one of the mistakes God made,\" Ablin told NPR this year.
\"He shouldn\'t have chosen me for that job. I don\'t know.
\"But on the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion in January, hundreds of people listened to the interview and they disagreed.
They included Alan McDonald, the owner of abelyn, and a representative of Theo Cole at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the day of the launch. \"I called [Ebeling]
You know, for me, my definition of a loser is someone who doesn\'t do anything, but even worse, they don\'t care, McDonald\'s told NPR a month later.
\"I said, \'What did you do? You really care.
This is the definition of winner.
His family said Ablin died Monday in Brigham, Utah, at the age of 89.
But, to a certain extent, thanks to the assurances of McDonald\'s and countless others, he went to God, for the problems that have plagued him over the last thirty years have reduced his burden.
\"It\'s like he\'s got permission from the world,\" his daughter Leslie Ablin Senna told NPR . \".
\"He was able to leave that part of his life.
Her wife Darlene and 35 generations survived.
The Illinois man lived in Brigham for more than half a century.
He is a quiet, pious man.
A husband, a loyal father, an outdoor lover.
He told the Salt Lake City Tribune that he spent his free time watching birds, cycling and boating on a vast wetland not far from the Thiokol plant where he worked.
But he knows how sad
In the years leading up to the Challenger explosion, his son committed suicide, Ablin told the Los Angeles Times in 1987.
At that time, Ablin held the young man in his arms to find out why he had not taken more measures to stop his death.
He will ask himself this question again soon.
On 1985, the booster rocket resumed from the January.
The launch of space shuttle Discovery showed signs of sealing problems.
Ebeling, who has worked in the engineering field for 40 years, and two other engineers have been assigned to study the problem.
Their findings are worrying. the rubber o-
In cold weather, the ring seal is hardened, allowing hot high pressure gas leakage inside the booster
But NASA and their manager at Thiokol were slow to respond.
In October, Ebeling wrote an emergency memo to his boss, McDonald\'s.
The infamous theme \"Help!
According to the Presidential Commission\'s 1986 report on the accident, he told McDonald\'s that the rocket sealing task force needed more resources and signed the words \"This is a red flag.
But launch date-
It has been delayed once due to wind conditions
The temperature is expected to be close to 30 degrees.
On the afternoon before the Challenger took off, Ebeling called McDonald\'s to warn him that the cold could have a disastrous impact on the launch.
This triggered a six-hour conference call between Thiokol engineers and executives and NASA officials.
According to The Times, Ebeling is not on that phone.
But MacDonald and engineer Arnold Thompson and Roger boyhawley insisted on the delay.
Although the reason has not been clear, the space agency is determined to launch.
President Reagan will discuss the space program in his State of the Union address that night.
NASA is also proud to launch the space shuttle regularly and reliably, and has postponed a Challenger launch.
In any case, officials strongly opposed the proposal to delay again.
George Hardy, deputy director of science and engineering at Marshall Space Flight Center, allegedly told engineers that he was \"shocked\" by their suggestions \".
It is said that Lawrence Moloy, the space shuttle program manager, asked, \"My God, Thiokol, when do you want me to launch, next April ? \"?
\"Late that night, executives and officials voted for the final vote: go.
Ebeling drove home very angrily.
\"It will explode,\" he told his wife seriously . \".
The next day, Ebeling invited Boisjoly, his engineer colleague, to his office to watch the shuttle take off.
When the clock reaches T minus 5 seconds, Boisjoly will tell the Guardian later that the two reach out and hold each other\'s hand. Three. Two. One.
When \"lifted off\", the shuttle flew into the sky and cleared the launch pad without any problem.
\"I turned to Bob and said, \'We survived a robbery, \'recalls Boisjoly. \'.
Meanwhile, Ablin is praying: \"Thank you for making me wrong,\" he whispered.
Then: \"Kaboom.
Ebeling told CBS. \"I —
I came out of there and went into my office and cried.
\"All seven astronauts on board are dead: commander Francis Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, Mission expert Ellison Onizuka, Mission expert Judith Resnick payload expert Gregory Jarvis and \"space teacher\" Krista mclev.
Three weeks later, Ebeling and Boisjoly agreed to an anonymous interview with NPR in which they described in detail the battle they had prevented the launch from failing.
This is the first report NASA knows what will happen.
\"I should have done more,\" Ebeling told reporter Howard Berkes at the time . \".
\"I could have done more.
\"He, McDonald\'s, Thompson and Brian Russell, the fifth engineer, will testify on the presidential commission investigating the explosion.
They all said the same thing: NASA and Thiokol have been warned that launching in the cold is not safe, but they continue.
The city of Brigham, where many Thiokol workers live, has been hit hard by the disaster.
People are shocked at it at the same time and worry about what it means for their own future.
At the same time, Thiokol became the target of a country angered by the death of seven astronauts.
NPR reports that vandals scrawled \"Morton tiokor murderer\" on the railway overpass on the road to the Thiokol factory \".
Within the company, the Los Angeles Times reported, it testified that Thiokol and those who failed NASA were called \"five lepers \".
Resentment among those in the company who want to avoid official accusations
Or just fear of their work.
Engineers are more painful because they can\'t stop the explosion.
Being isolated at meetings and excluded from technical meetings;
Their reports are often ignored.
In the end, Ablin retired.
He told The Times that he felt \"no longer needed\" at work and, to be honest, he didn\'t want to have anything to do with the shuttle program anymore.
He can\'t control the lives of more people.
\"I can\'t stand another fault that has something to do with me anymore,\" he said . \".
Abilin seeks comfort in the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, a vast oasis of wetlands in the snow of Utah --
Capped Mountains and dry deserts.
In 1989, after years of flooding in the Great Salt Lake, the sanctuary was almost destroyed.
The dams and water facilities were overwhelmed, the headquarters were crushed into rubble, and the landscape was flushed bare.
He appeared at the run-down fish and wildlife service, demanding voluntary service.
Within a year, the retired engineer called the community to raise money for the new infrastructure.
In July 4, he helped make his first public visit to the vibrant facilities, once again home to tundra swans and giant white pelicans
Ebeling\'s favorite-
Several kinds of ducks.
\"Space is the new frontier.
This is the future.
In an interview with Salt Lake City Tribune on 1990, Ablin said: \"Ducks are past tense . \"
\"They are what we have and where we come from.
Both have their own positions in society.
\"Ebelin\'s efforts have earned him national recognition, including the National Association for wildlife sanctuary annual Volunteer Award in 2013, but they have not eliminated his relentless guilt.
When NPR\'s Berkes, who interviewed him 1986, approached him again on the 30th anniversary of the disaster, Ablin was no less than three weeks after the Challenger fell from the sky.
He told Berks that he was not enough.
He thinks the data is not good enough.
Maybe another person can convince NASA to postpone it, but he can\'t.
As he intended to tell God, he was a \"loser \".
\"Listen to the radio in his car in Jacksonville, New York. C. , 51-year-
Old Jim Sides, a utility engineer, was deeply touched.
\"It broke my heart, I just-
I cried in the car in the parking lot, \"Sides told NPR.
After the interview aired, Sides was one of hundreds of people who wrote to Ebeling: \"Your efforts show that your concern for others comes first. . .
\"You did everything you could with him and your colleagues,\" he said . \".
\"God did not choose a loser.
He chose Bob.
\"It\'s easy to say,\" an unconvinced Ablin told Burks . \".
\"But after listening, I still have this feeling of guilt.
He pointed to his heart.
Ebeling told Berkes that he needed news from NASA and Thiokol (
After being absorbed by another company).
He needs to hear from the person involved in the mission that he has completed his work and he is telling the truth.
So Berkes found them.
The first McDonald\'s to assure Ebeling that he has done his best.
McDonald\'s called to comfort Ablin: \"I said, Bob, think about this.
If you don\'t call me, they will.
\"Mode, we don\'t even have a chance to try and stop it,\" he told burx . \".
And then he found the current Hardy.
Retired NASA officials said he was \"shocked\" by the proposal to postpone the 11-hour launch call \". \"[Hardy]
\"Say that you and your colleagues have done everything they expect you to do,\" Berkes told Ebeling . \".
\"This decision is a collective decision made by several people at NASA and Thiokol.
You should not torture yourself for any hypothetical blame.
When he heard this, Ablin said loudly, \"Thank you!
The story also drew a statement from NASA\'s current director, Charlie Boden: \"We respect [
Astronaut challenger
\"Not by bearing the burden of loss, but by constantly reminding each other to be vigilant,\" it wrote . \".
And listen to those like Mr.
They have the courage to speak out loudly so that our astronauts can carry out their tasks safely.
The statement gave warm applause.
Despite being bound by a wheelchair and suffering from prostate cancer, Berkes reports that 89-year-
In the past 30 years, his spirit has been brighter than ever.
\"It\'s great, it\'s like a miracle,\" Bob\'s daughter Kathy Ablin told The Washington Post last month . \".
\"He doesn\'t feel guilty anymore and it\'s starting to change his mind so it\'s a miracle.
Thirty years of guilt is long enough.
The young lady said she asked her father, \"Dad, did these letters help you find peace ? \"?
He told her, \"Yes.
\"He doesn\'t have to die because of this nagging guilt,\" she said . \".
\"He is free to die.
Why is the Washington Post me?
When Bob Ebeling saw God, he intended to ask him this way: \"Why am I?
You chose a loser.
\"For 30 years, Ebeling, a former rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton tiokor, has been overwhelmed by his own grief and guilt about the disaster that failed to stop.
A few days before the Challenger space shuttle was burned in the middle.
All seven astronauts on board were killed, and four other engineers asked NASA to postpone the launch.
They worry about whether the rubber will
In the cold winter, the ring on the shuttle\'s booster rocket will seal properly.
Ebeling even wrote a shocking memo detailing the ring issue.
Its theme is \"help!
But the engineers were rejected.
When the space shuttle and crew turned to ashes in the air in January 28, 1986, he and his colleagues looked helplessly in horror.
\"I think this is one of the mistakes God made,\" Ablin told NPR this year.
\"He shouldn\'t have chosen me for that job. I don\'t know.
\"But on the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion in January, hundreds of people listened to the interview and they disagreed.
They included Alan McDonald, the owner of abelyn, and a representative of Theo Cole at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the day of the launch. \"I called [Ebeling]
You know, for me, my definition of a loser is someone who doesn\'t do anything, but even worse, they don\'t care, McDonald\'s told NPR a month later.
\"I said, \'What did you do? You really care.
This is the definition of winner.
His family said Ablin died Monday in Brigham, Utah, at the age of 89.
But, to a certain extent, thanks to the assurances of McDonald\'s and countless others, he went to God, for the problems that have plagued him over the last thirty years have reduced his burden.
\"It\'s like he\'s got permission from the world,\" his daughter Leslie Ablin Senna told NPR . \".
\"He was able to leave that part of his life.
Her wife Darlene and 35 generations survived.
The Illinois man lived in Brigham for more than half a century.
He is a quiet, pious man.
A husband, a loyal father, an outdoor lover.
He told the Salt Lake City Tribune that he spent his free time watching birds, cycling and boating on a vast wetland not far from the Thiokol plant where he worked.
But he knows how sad
In the years leading up to the Challenger explosion, his son committed suicide, Ablin told the Los Angeles Times in 1987.
At that time, Ablin held the young man in his arms to find out why he had not taken more measures to stop his death.
He will ask himself this question again soon.
On 1985, the booster rocket resumed from the January.
The launch of space shuttle Discovery showed signs of sealing problems.
Ebeling, who has worked in the engineering field for 40 years, and two other engineers have been assigned to study the problem.
Their findings are worrying. the rubber o-
In cold weather, the ring seal is hardened, allowing hot high pressure gas leakage inside the booster
But NASA and their manager at Thiokol were slow to respond.
In October, Ebeling wrote an emergency memo to his boss, McDonald\'s.
The infamous theme \"Help!
According to the Presidential Commission\'s 1986 report on the accident, he told McDonald\'s that the rocket sealing task force needed more resources and signed the words \"This is a red flag.
But launch date-
It has been delayed once due to wind conditions
The temperature is expected to be close to 30 degrees.
On the afternoon before the Challenger took off, Ebeling called McDonald\'s to warn him that the cold could have a disastrous impact on the launch.
This triggered a six-hour conference call between Thiokol engineers and executives and NASA officials.
According to The Times, Ebeling is not on that phone.
But MacDonald and engineer Arnold Thompson and Roger boyhawley insisted on the delay.
Although the reason has not been clear, the space agency is determined to launch.
President Reagan will discuss the space program in his State of the Union address that night.
NASA is also proud to launch the space shuttle regularly and reliably, and has postponed a Challenger launch.
In any case, officials strongly opposed the proposal to delay again.
George Hardy, deputy director of science and engineering at Marshall Space Flight Center, allegedly told engineers that he was \"shocked\" by their suggestions \".
It is said that Lawrence Moloy, the space shuttle program manager, asked, \"My God, Thiokol, when do you want me to launch, next April ? \"?
\"Late that night, executives and officials voted for the final vote: go.
Ebeling drove home very angrily.
\"It will explode,\" he told his wife seriously . \".
The next day, Ebeling invited Boisjoly, his engineer colleague, to his office to watch the shuttle take off.
When the clock reaches T minus 5 seconds, Boisjoly will tell the Guardian later that the two reach out and hold each other\'s hand. Three. Two. One.
When \"lifted off\", the shuttle flew into the sky and cleared the launch pad without any problem.
\"I turned to Bob and said, \'We survived a robbery, \'recalls Boisjoly. \'.
Meanwhile, Ablin is praying: \"Thank you for making me wrong,\" he whispered.
Then: \"Kaboom.
Ebeling told CBS. \"I —
I came out of there and went into my office and cried.
\"All seven astronauts on board are dead: commander Francis Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, Mission expert Ellison Onizuka, Mission expert Judith Resnick payload expert Gregory Jarvis and \"space teacher\" Krista mclev.
Three weeks later, Ebeling and Boisjoly agreed to an anonymous interview with NPR in which they described in detail the battle they had prevented the launch from failing.
This is the first report NASA knows what will happen.
\"I should have done more,\" Ebeling told reporter Howard Berkes at the time . \".
\"I could have done more.
\"He, McDonald\'s, Thompson and Brian Russell, the fifth engineer, will testify on the presidential commission investigating the explosion.
They all said the same thing: NASA and Thiokol have been warned that launching in the cold is not safe, but they continue.
The city of Brigham, where many Thiokol workers live, has been hit hard by the disaster.
People are shocked at it at the same time and worry about what it means for their own future.
At the same time, Thiokol became the target of a country angered by the death of seven astronauts.
NPR reports that vandals scrawled \"Morton tiokor murderer\" on the railway overpass on the road to the Thiokol factory \".
Within the company, the Los Angeles Times reported, it testified that Thiokol and those who failed NASA were called \"five lepers \".
Resentment among those in the company who want to avoid official accusations
Or just fear of their work.
Engineers are more painful because they can\'t stop the explosion.
Being isolated at meetings and excluded from technical meetings;
Their reports are often ignored.
In the end, Ablin retired.
He told The Times that he felt \"no longer needed\" at work and, to be honest, he didn\'t want to have anything to do with the shuttle program anymore.
He can\'t control the lives of more people.
\"I can\'t stand another fault that has something to do with me anymore,\" he said . \".
Abilin seeks comfort in the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, a vast oasis of wetlands in the snow of Utah --
Capped Mountains and dry deserts.
In 1989, after years of flooding in the Great Salt Lake, the sanctuary was almost destroyed.
The dams and water facilities were overwhelmed, the headquarters were crushed into rubble, and the landscape was flushed bare.
He appeared at the run-down fish and wildlife service, demanding voluntary service.
Within a year, the retired engineer called the community to raise money for the new infrastructure.
In July 4, he helped make his first public visit to the vibrant facilities, once again home to tundra swans and giant white pelicans
Ebeling\'s favorite-
Several kinds of ducks.
\"Space is the new frontier.
This is the future.
In an interview with Salt Lake City Tribune on 1990, Ablin said: \"Ducks are past tense . \"
\"They are what we have and where we come from.
Both have their own positions in society.
\"Ebelin\'s efforts have earned him national recognition, including the National Association for wildlife sanctuary annual Volunteer Award in 2013, but they have not eliminated his relentless guilt.
When NPR\'s Berkes, who interviewed him 1986, approached him again on the 30th anniversary of the disaster, Ablin was no less than three weeks after the Challenger fell from the sky.
He told Berks that he was not enough.
He thinks the data is not good enough.
Maybe another person can convince NASA to postpone it, but he can\'t.
As he intended to tell God, he was a \"loser \".
\"Listen to the radio in his car in Jacksonville, New York. C. , 51-year-
Old Jim Sides, a utility engineer, was deeply touched.
\"It broke my heart, I just-
I cried in the car in the parking lot, \"Sides told NPR.
After the interview aired, Sides was one of hundreds of people who wrote to Ebeling: \"Your efforts show that your concern for others comes first. . .
\"You did everything you could with him and your colleagues,\" he said . \".
\"God did not choose a loser.
He chose Bob.
\"It\'s easy to say,\" an unconvinced Ablin told Burks . \".
\"But after listening, I still have this feeling of guilt.
He pointed to his heart.
Ebeling told Berkes that he needed news from NASA and Thiokol (
After being absorbed by another company).
He needs to hear from the person involved in the mission that he has completed his work and he is telling the truth.
So Berkes found them.
The first McDonald\'s to assure Ebeling that he has done his best.
McDonald\'s called to comfort Ablin: \"I said, Bob, think about this.
If you don\'t call me, they will.
\"Mode, we don\'t even have a chance to try and stop it,\" he told burx . \".
And then he found the current Hardy.
Retired NASA officials said he was \"shocked\" by the proposal to postpone the 11-hour launch call \". \"[Hardy]
\"Say that you and your colleagues have done everything they expect you to do,\" Berkes told Ebeling . \".
\"This decision is a collective decision made by several people at NASA and Thiokol.
You should not torture yourself for any hypothetical blame.
When he heard this, Ablin said loudly, \"Thank you!
The story also drew a statement from NASA\'s current director, Charlie Boden: \"We respect [
Astronaut challenger
\"Not by bearing the burden of loss, but by constantly reminding each other to be vigilant,\" it wrote . \".
And listen to those like Mr.
They have the courage to speak out loudly so that our astronauts can carry out their tasks safely.
The statement gave warm applause.
Despite being bound by a wheelchair and suffering from prostate cancer, Berkes reports that 89-year-
In the past 30 years, his spirit has been brighter than ever.
\"It\'s great, it\'s like a miracle,\" Bob\'s daughter Kathy Ablin told The Washington Post last month . \".
\"He doesn\'t feel guilty anymore and it\'s starting to change his mind so it\'s a miracle.
Thirty years of guilt is long enough.
The young lady said she asked her father, \"Dad, did these letters help you find peace ? \"?
He told her, \"Yes.
\"He doesn\'t have to die because of this nagging guilt,\" she said . \".
\"He is free to die.
Why is the Washington Post me?
When Bob Ebeling saw God, he intended to ask him this way: \"Why am I?
You chose a loser.
\"For 30 years, Ebeling, a former rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton tiokor, has been overwhelmed by his own grief and guilt about the disaster that failed to stop.
A few days before the Challenger space shuttle was burned in the middle.
All seven astronauts on board were killed, and four other engineers asked NASA to postpone the launch.
They worry about whether the rubber will
In the cold winter, the ring on the shuttle\'s booster rocket will seal properly.
Ebeling even wrote a shocking memo detailing the ring issue.
Its theme is \"help!
But the engineers were rejected.
When the space shuttle and crew turned to ashes in the air in January 28, 1986, he and his colleagues looked helplessly in horror.
\"I think this is one of the mistakes God made,\" Ablin told NPR this year.
\"He shouldn\'t have chosen me for that job. I don\'t know.
\"But on the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion in January, hundreds of people listened to the interview and they disagreed.
They included Alan McDonald, the owner of abelyn, and a representative of Theo Cole at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the day of the launch. \"I called [Ebeling]
You know, for me, my definition of a loser is someone who doesn\'t do anything, but even worse, they don\'t care, McDonald\'s told NPR a month later.
\"I said, \'What did you do? You really care.
This is the definition of winner.
His family said Ablin died Monday in Brigham, Utah, at the age of 89.
But, to a certain extent, thanks to the assurances of McDonald\'s and countless others, he went to God, for the problems that have plagued him over the last thirty years have reduced his burden.
\"It\'s like he\'s got permission from the world,\" his daughter Leslie Ablin Senna told NPR . \".
\"He was able to leave that part of his life.
Her wife Darlene and 35 generations survived.
The Illinois man lived in Brigham for more than half a century.
He is a quiet, pious man.
A husband, a loyal father, an outdoor lover.
He told the Salt Lake City Tribune that he spent his free time watching birds, cycling and boating on a vast wetland not far from the Thiokol plant where he worked.
But he knows how sad
In the years leading up to the Challenger explosion, his son committed suicide, Ablin told the Los Angeles Times in 1987.
At that time, Ablin held the young man in his arms to find out why he had not taken more measures to stop his death.
He will ask himself this question again soon.
On 1985, the booster rocket resumed from the January.
The launch of space shuttle Discovery showed signs of sealing problems.
Ebeling, who has worked in the engineering field for 40 years, and two other engineers have been assigned to study the problem.
Their findings are worrying. the rubber o-
In cold weather, the ring seal is hardened, allowing hot high pressure gas leakage inside the booster
But NASA and their manager at Thiokol were slow to respond.
In October, Ebeling wrote an emergency memo to his boss, McDonald\'s.
The infamous theme \"Help!
According to the Presidential Commission\'s 1986 report on the accident, he told McDonald\'s that the rocket sealing task force needed more resources and signed the words \"This is a red flag.
But launch date-
It has been delayed once due to wind conditions
The temperature is expected to be close to 30 degrees.
On the afternoon before the Challenger took off, Ebeling called McDonald\'s to warn him that the cold could have a disastrous impact on the launch.
This triggered a six-hour conference call between Thiokol engineers and executives and NASA officials.
According to The Times, Ebeling is not on that phone.
But MacDonald and engineer Arnold Thompson and Roger boyhawley insisted on the delay.
Although the reason has not been clear, the space agency is determined to launch.
President Reagan will discuss the space program in his State of the Union address that night.
NASA is also proud to launch the space shuttle regularly and reliably, and has postponed a Challenger launch.
In any case, officials strongly opposed the proposal to delay again.
George Hardy, deputy director of science and engineering at Marshall Space Flight Center, allegedly told engineers that he was \"shocked\" by their suggestions \".
It is said that Lawrence Moloy, the space shuttle program manager, asked, \"My God, Thiokol, when do you want me to launch, next April ? \"?
\"Late that night, executives and officials voted for the final vote: go.
Ebeling drove home very angrily.
\"It will explode,\" he told his wife seriously . \".
The next day, Ebeling invited Boisjoly, his engineer colleague, to his office to watch the shuttle take off.
When the clock reaches T minus 5 seconds, Boisjoly will tell the Guardian later that the two reach out and hold each other\'s hand. Three. Two. One.
When \"lifted off\", the shuttle flew into the sky and cleared the launch pad without any problem.
\"I turned to Bob and said, \'We survived a robbery, \'recalls Boisjoly. \'.
Meanwhile, Ablin is praying: \"Thank you for making me wrong,\" he whispered.
Then: \"Kaboom.
Ebeling told CBS. \"I —
I came out of there and went into my office and cried.
\"All seven astronauts on board are dead: commander Francis Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, Mission expert Ellison Onizuka, Mission expert Judith Resnick payload expert Gregory Jarvis and \"space teacher\" Krista mclev.
Three weeks later, Ebeling and Boisjoly agreed to an anonymous interview with NPR in which they described in detail the battle they had prevented the launch from failing.
This is the first report NASA knows what will happen.
\"I should have done more,\" Ebeling told reporter Howard Berkes at the time . \".
\"I could have done more.
\"He, McDonald\'s, Thompson and Brian Russell, the fifth engineer, will testify on the presidential commission investigating the explosion.
They all said the same thing: NASA and Thiokol have been warned that launching in the cold is not safe, but they continue.
The city of Brigham, where many Thiokol workers live, has been hit hard by the disaster.
People are shocked at it at the same time and worry about what it means for their own future.
At the same time, Thiokol became the target of a country angered by the death of seven astronauts.
NPR reports that vandals scrawled \"Morton tiokor murderer\" on the railway overpass on the road to the Thiokol factory \".
Within the company, the Los Angeles Times reported, it testified that Thiokol and those who failed NASA were called \"five lepers \".
Resentment among those in the company who want to avoid official accusations
Or just fear of their work.
Engineers are more painful because they can\'t stop the explosion.
Being isolated at meetings and excluded from technical meetings;
Their reports are often ignored.
In the end, Ablin retired.
He told The Times that he felt \"no longer needed\" at work and, to be honest, he didn\'t want to have anything to do with the shuttle program anymore.
He can\'t control the lives of more people.
\"I can\'t stand another fault that has something to do with me anymore,\" he said . \".
Abilin seeks comfort in the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, a vast oasis of wetlands in the snow of Utah --
Capped Mountains and dry deserts.
In 1989, after years of flooding in the Great Salt Lake, the sanctuary was almost destroyed.
The dams and water facilities were overwhelmed, the headquarters were crushed into rubble, and the landscape was flushed bare.
He appeared at the run-down fish and wildlife service, demanding voluntary service.
Within a year, the retired engineer called the community to raise money for the new infrastructure.
In July 4, he helped make his first public visit to the vibrant facilities, once again home to tundra swans and giant white pelicans
Ebeling\'s favorite-
Several kinds of ducks.
\"Space is the new frontier.
This is the future.
In an interview with Salt Lake City Tribune on 1990, Ablin said: \"Ducks are past tense . \"
\"They are what we have and where we come from.
Both have their own positions in society.
\"Ebelin\'s efforts have earned him national recognition, including the National Association for wildlife sanctuary annual Volunteer Award in 2013, but they have not eliminated his relentless guilt.
When NPR\'s Berkes, who interviewed him 1986, approached him again on the 30th anniversary of the disaster, Ablin was no less than three weeks after the Challenger fell from the sky.
He told Berks that he was not enough.
He thinks the data is not good enough.
Maybe another person can convince NASA to postpone it, but he can\'t.
As he intended to tell God, he was a \"loser \".
\"Listen to the radio in his car in Jacksonville, New York. C. , 51-year-
Old Jim Sides, a utility engineer, was deeply touched.
\"It broke my heart, I just-
I cried in the car in the parking lot, \"Sides told NPR.
After the interview aired, Sides was one of hundreds of people who wrote to Ebeling: \"Your efforts show that your concern for others comes first. . .
\"You did everything you could with him and your colleagues,\" he said . \".
\"God did not choose a loser.
He chose Bob.
\"It\'s easy to say,\" an unconvinced Ablin told Burks . \".
\"But after listening, I still have this feeling of guilt.
He pointed to his heart.
Ebeling told Berkes that he needed news from NASA and Thiokol (
After being absorbed by another company).
He needs to hear from the person involved in the mission that he has completed his work and he is telling the truth.
So Berkes found them.
The first McDonald\'s to assure Ebeling that he has done his best.
McDonald\'s called to comfort Ablin: \"I said, Bob, think about this.
If you don\'t call me, they will.
\"Mode, we don\'t even have a chance to try and stop it,\" he told burx . \".
And then he found the current Hardy.
Retired NASA officials said he was \"shocked\" by the proposal to postpone the 11-hour launch call \". \"[Hardy]
\"Say that you and your colleagues have done everything they expect you to do,\" Berkes told Ebeling . \".
\"This decision is a collective decision made by several people at NASA and Thiokol.
You should not torture yourself for any hypothetical blame.
When he heard this, Ablin said loudly, \"Thank you!
The story also drew a statement from NASA\'s current director, Charlie Boden: \"We respect [
Astronaut challenger
\"Not by bearing the burden of loss, but by constantly reminding each other to be vigilant,\" it wrote . \".
And listen to those like Mr.
They have the courage to speak out loudly so that our astronauts can carry out their tasks safely.
The statement gave warm applause.
Despite being bound by a wheelchair and suffering from prostate cancer, Berkes reports that 89-year-
In the past 30 years, his spirit has been brighter than ever.
\"It\'s great, it\'s like a miracle,\" Bob\'s daughter Kathy Ablin told The Washington Post last month . \".
\"He doesn\'t feel guilty anymore and it\'s starting to change his mind so it\'s a miracle.
Thirty years of guilt is long enough.
The young lady said she asked her father, \"Dad, did these letters help you find peace ? \"?
He told her, \"Yes.
\"He doesn\'t have to die because of this nagging guilt,\" she said . \".
\"He is free to die.