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Roger Boisjoly was a booster rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol in Utah in January, 1986, when he and four colleagues became embroiled in the fatal decision to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Boisjoly was also one of two confidential sources quoted by NPR three weeks later in the first detailed report about the Challenger launch decision, and the stiff resistance by Boisjoly and other Thiokol engineers.

mhodgson wrote:Fascinating; and yet terrifying knowing how such a small component caused such a terrible incident. Must have been utterly gut-wrenching seeing it unfold knowing you predicted something as catastrophic as that.