Re: [OM] [OT] Space shuttle

[HI100]

jnmcbr@xxxxxxx writes in connection with the Challenger accident(?):

<< The engineer who was the technical rep for the contractor refused
 to approve the launch and he was overridden by his company management and
 NASA management. After the accident the engineer was the one most severely
 punished and his career was completely destroyed. 
>>
The account that Nobel prizewiner Prof Feynman gives of the internal politics 
of the disaster is quite interesting. Prof Feynman was aparently called in as 
an independent investigator after the accident partly because of the 
convoluted politics. It seems he was then fed clues so that he could 
"discover" the problem.

                  Regards,
                 Tim Hughes
                >>Hi100@xxxxxxx<<

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