Challenger O-rings Data
Record of the number and type of O-ring failures prior to the tragic Challenger mission in January, 1986.
orings
This data frame contains the following columns:
O-ring temperature for each test firing or actual launch of the shuttle rocket engine
Number of erosion incidents
Number of blowby incidents
Total number of incidents
Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Vol. 1, 1986: 129-131.
Tufte, E. R. 1997. Visual Explanations. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S.A.
oldpar <- par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(Total~Temperature, data = orings[c(1,2,4,11,13,18),]) # the
# observations included in the pre-launch charts
plot(Total~Temperature, data = orings)
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