{"id":201,"date":"2016-02-28T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-02-28T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:08:08","slug":"your-letters-helped-challenger-shuttle-engineer-shed-30-years-of-guilt-the-two-way-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/28\/your-letters-helped-challenger-shuttle-engineer-shed-30-years-of-guilt-the-two-way-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Letters Helped Challenger Shuttle Engineer Shed 30 Years Of Guilt : The Two-Way : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/02\/25\/466555217\/your-letters-helped-challenger-shuttle-engineer-shed-30-years-of-guilt\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_1448-edit_custom-47e3131c0567deac53ea8665fb6b08b40c0c1800-s400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to blow up,&#8221; a distraught and defeated Ebeling told his wife, Darlene, when he arrived home that night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>And it did, 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts died. Cold weather and an O-ring failure were blamed, and Ebeling carried three decades of guilt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That was one of the mistakes God made,&#8221; Ebeling, now 89, told me three weeks ago at his home in Brigham City, Utah. &#8220;He shouldn&#8217;t have picked me for that job. But next time I talk to him, I&#8217;m gonna ask him, &#8216;Why me? You picked a loser.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/02\/25\/466555217\/your-letters-helped-challenger-shuttle-engineer-shed-30-years-of-guilt\">Your Letters Helped Challenger Shuttle Engineer Shed 30 Years Of Guilt : The Two-Way : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to blow up,&#8221; a distraught and defeated Ebeling told his wife, Darlene, when he arrived home that night. And it did, 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts died. Cold weather and an O-ring failure were blamed, and Ebeling carried three decades of guilt. &#8220;That was one of the mistakes God made,&#8221; Ebeling, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}