Statistics for Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
US President at the time	Ronald Reagan	73%
Failure component	O-ring	65%
Only TV network providing live public broadcast of the launch	CNN	56%
	Christa McAuliffe	50%
Number of seconds between ignition and onset of disintegraton	73	48%
Wreckage impact site	Atlantic Ocean	42%
	Judith Resnik	40%
Crew	Dick Scobee	38%
Vice-chairman and retired astronaut	Neil Armstrong	37%
Ambient temperature at time of launch (degrees F)	28-29	35%
Contractor which built the solid rocket boosters	Morton Thiokol	35%
Date of final mission	28 January, 1986	31%
	Ellison Onizuka	31%
Minimum ambient temperature permitted for launch (degrees F)	31	29%
	Mike Smith	27%
Launch pad	39B	25%
	Greg Jarvis	25%
Astronaut and commission member	Sally Ride	25%
Record-setting test pilot and commission member	Charles Yeager	21%
Contractor which built the shuttle	Rockwell International	21%
Theoretical physicist and commision member	Richard Feynman	19%
	Ronald MacNair	17%
Fight director	Jay Greene	13%
Chairman of investigating commission	William P. Rogers	13%