> It wasn't actually a faulty O-ring. It was an O-ring used outside the 
> environment the engineers knew it was supposed to be used in 
> (temperature-wise).

But the million dollar question is, was the shuttle taking off in ambient 
conditions outside of the designed temperature range, or had the designers 
failed to check that every component would remain within its operating range 
during take off?

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