In an interview he gave to NPR to mark the anniversary of the accident in 2016, Ebeling said, “I think that was one of the mistakes God made. He shouldn’t have picked me for that job… next time I talk to him, I’m going to ask him, ‘Why? You picked a loser.’ ” After the broadcast, for the first time since the disaster, Ebeling heard directly from those involved in the launch decision, including George Hardy and Bob Lund, assuring him that he bore no responsibility for the deaths of the Challenger crew. “You did all that you could do,” Lund told him. Ebeling succumbed to cancer two months later.
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