Re: What was the biggest problem for each of the 2 destroyed US space shuttles?

From: rk (stellare_at_NOSPAMPLEASE.erols.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: 03 Sep 2004 01:45:19 GMT

Brian Thorn wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:53:29 -0600, "Jay Windley"
> <webmaster@clavius.org> wrote:
>
>>| Neither problem was fundamentally fatal and doomed to occur. Had
>>| management pulled their heads out of their asses to come up for breath
>>| once in a while, both accidents could have been avoided. Warning signs
>>| were ignored in both cases.
>>
>>It's unfair to say they were "ignored".
>
> "My, God, Thiokol... when *do* you want us to launch... April?"
>
> Those guys had their heads up their asses, and I sincerely hope they
> are now in charge of nothing more complex than a local McDonalds.

And to toss in my $0.02 ...

When you launch over the strong and continued objections of the lead engineers
and the Director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project I would say
that it's very fair to say that they were in fact "ignored." 

-- 
rk, Just an OldEngineer, who keeps his engineering hat on
"Engineers abhor extrapolation"
-- Ken Iliff, from _Runway to Orbit_, 2004

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