A dataset containing information about the o-ring status of the flights leading up to the Space Shuttle Challenger distaster.

challenger

Format

A data.frame

flight

Flight number

temp

Launch temperature (Fahrenheit)

erosion

Number of o-ring erosion incidents

blowby

Number of o-ring blow-by incidents

damage

Damage severity index

date

Date of launch

Other references:

Details

Sourced from a table in Tufte's "Visual and Statistical Thinking"