This all lines up with my understanding of the launch decision. Anyone who has worked with engineering specifications for process industry would know that the engineering staff for sure were aware of the temperature vulnerability of those seals, and the investigation bears that out with an extensive documentation trail. But the lessons here involve organizational decision making with huge pressures to perform, management of technical expertise, and dealing with large impact contingencies where prior luck breeds false assurance. No one in engineering was saying that physics did not apply. The disaster, however, is way off topic in regards to biochemistry let alone the Lenski experiment.