I’m starting a new thread for discussion of the Challenger Disaster. Because topic are tangled I have tried to quote all the relevant comments and used that to start the new topic, allowing comment which may apply to both topics to stay. New comments related to Challenger will be moved.
I’m starting a new thread for discussion of the Challenger Disaster. Because topic are tangled I have tried to quote all the relevant comments rather than move comments that may apply to both topics. New comments related to Challenger will be moved here.
Continuing the discussion from Lenski’s Long Term Evolutionary Experiment | The Skeptical Zone :
The relevant comments:
There is no mystery at all. The NASA managers didn’t want the truth to be the truth. The truth was a very, very inconvenient truth. On all previous missions during flight readiness review, all departments and sub-contractors were grilled strenuously as to why their system should be deemed flight-ready. On the 25th space shuttle mission, upon Morton Thiokol’s recommendation not to launch, they were asked to prove that it was unsafe to do so and that the mission would fail. The flight had already been delayed numerous times and the window for the teacher in space to deliver her lesson from space was rapidly closing…