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autofocus111on Dec 12, 2018 5:53pm
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RE:RE:RE:So HSE made the same mistake as XON
RE:RE:RE:So HSE made the same mistake as XONRE: space shutle disaster That poor engineer took the blame and suffered in guilt all the way to his grave. I wonder how the managers who ignored his warnings feel about it.
>>>Bob Ebeling spent a third of his life consumed with guilt about the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. But at the end of his life, his family says, he was finally able to find peace. Ebeling helped assemble the data that demonstrated the risk. Boisjoly argued for a launch delay. At first, the Thiokol executives agreed and said they wouldn't approve the launch. "My God, Thiokol," responded Lawrence Mulloy of NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center. "When do you want me to launch? Next April?" Despite hours of argument and reams of data, the Thiokol executives relented. McDonald says the data were absolutely clear, but politics and pressure interfered. Ebeling blamed himself for failing to convince Thiokol executives and NASA to wait for warmer weather. "I think that was one of the mistakes God made," Ebeling told me in January. "He shouldn't have picked me for that job."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/21/470870426/challenger-engineer-who-warned-of-shuttle-disaster-dies