Re: Need name of woman who assessed NASA safety culture

From: Ray Schmitt (rjs41_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/17/04


Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:24:30 -0800


> Instead, talk about "Dead Men Orbiting" and evoke the
> emotional/subconscious response, as it should, and as a group everyone
> will be motivated on the intellectual level as well as the
> emotional/subconscious level. Using the correct words, a new Political
> Correctness, would be one of the simplest and easiest ways to bring about
> frank and direct discussion and the cultural change that NASA needs.
>
> Craig Fink
>
>

And in the jargon of the FAA and the NTSB what's been going on during the
past 2 years (post-Columbia) would be called "tombstone engineering", i.e.
fixing design/operational problems after people have become aviation
fatalities.

Later
Ray Schmitt