I need help remembering a story.

I recall reading a story online about someone associated with one of the original space shuttle missions back in the day (I don't know if one of the expeditions to the moon or if just a "regular" nonlunar flight in space). I don't remember if this person was an astronaut or simply one of the crew back at NASA home base supporting the mission.

The article I read described a very unlikely malfunction that occurred, and the solution to said malfunction was buried deep in one of the instruction manuals that only the most diligent people read. During this space flight, the very unlikely malfunction actually happened, and the person in question had been reading these manuals religiously and ended up being the only person who knew the very obscure solution to the unlikely malfunction. They knew exactly what to do, and their quick thinking saved the mission, it would otherwise have ended as yet another space shuttle disaster. However, it's mostly forgotten that this incident even occurred because the mission was a success.

When I try searching this story/article up online, I mostly just get results describing the Challenger explosion and the Columbia disaster. I can't find any results describing a nonfatal emergency shuttle event solved by a single person. I read the article probably around a decade ago, so the details I remember are simply not enough to search for the article successfully.

I used to work on this, but I can't remember the STA value.

I grew up with the shuttle program and so every time I see a photo of a space shuttle I always get this nostalgia feeling.

If one SRB used up al the fuel before the other, it would cause an asymmetric thrust. If that lasted for more than a few seconds, I would imagine it could cause some severe problems. So, they must have thought of this. Other than extreme precision in manufacturing the SRB fuel, what other ways did they have to mitigate the risk?

And what would happen if something went wrong, and one SRB did shut down substantially before the other?

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Thank you r/spaceshuttle for helping with the cross-post I put up this morning with the aircraft window...

Apologies that I doubted and questioned any of you, especially when I came to you as I have zero knowledge, and then questioned you that know what you're talking about!

Thank you to u/megamoonrocket for not slapping me for questioning your knowledge and input, and to u/tvfeet for input as to what aircraft it could well be from.

My teachers husband has flown the endeavor the rocket right here! I am not lying and if you don't believe me I live 1 mile away from the best air force academy in the world! And because of this I have become a space shuttle nerd!

This clip from NASA's zero-g KC-135 shows important early medical work on a space shuttle treadmill, physical exams in orbit, and lagomorph (bunny) research. I'm not saying which one is me. The plane usually flew 40 parabolas in sets of ten, giving about 20-25 seconds of zero-g in each parabola. Or 30 if you asked the pilots real nicely. 2-G pull -ups are the tough part and aren't filmed.

KC-135 flight 1988

Hello everybody new sub member here.

Of course everyone knows about the massive number of conspiracy theories surrounding shuttle Challenger and her loss on STS-51L. However I was wondering if there were any other conspiracy theories surrounding the other orbiters: Enterprise, Columbia, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. I would like to find out about non Challenger conspiracy theories to compile into a video debunking them. I hope that this subreddit will provide some interesting tales. If anyone has any interesting non-conspiracy theory stories about the shuttle orbiters they would be greatly appreciated. Thank you