EP69 - The Anatomy of Go Fever: The Seventy-Three Second Warning

On a frigid January morning in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger and its seven-person crew were lost in a plume of white smoke, live on national television. The world believed it was a tragic, unavoidable accident, but the truth was a far more chilling story of a warning that was deliberately silenced. This is the anatomy of an institutional failure, a methodical dissection of the hours and years of decisions that made a catastrophe not just possible, but inevitable.