The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch
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Now, 35 years after the Challenger disaster, McDonald’s family reports that he died Saturday in Ogden, Utah, after suffering a fall and brain damage.
“There are two ways in which [McDonald’s] actions were heroic,” recalls Mark Maier, who directs a leadership program at Chapman University and produced a documentary about the Challenger launch decision.
Twelve days after Challenger exploded, McDonald stood up in a closed hearing of a presidential commission investigating the tragedy.
The focus of the commission’s investigation shifted to the booster rocket O-rings, the efforts of McDonald and his colleagues to stop the launch and the failure of NASA officials to listen.
The company relented, and McDonald was promoted to vice president and put in charge of the effort to redesign the booster rocket joints that failed during the Challenger launch.
He and Chapman University’s Maier held leadership and ethics seminars for corporations and government agencies, including U.S. Space Command.
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