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

From: Derek Lyons (fairwater_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:02:44 GMT

rk <stellare@nospamplease.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> All they had was the general argument -- true though it may be -- that
>> elastomers lose their elasticity in the cold.
>
>No, they also had data that they had taken and their calculations.
>And they also had on their side that they could not back a launch decision.
>It was in the gray area. Ignoring this was a serious managemenet mistake.
>
>And they also had the pictures of damaged joints they pounded on the table.

But what they didn't have was a clear and unequivocal case as to why,
suddenly, Challenger was unsafe to fly. In the end, when challenged
to prove their case, the engineers were unable, or unwilling, to do
so. And we see this again during Columbia when the engineers were
asked to provide a rationale for taking imagery on orbit.

D. 

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