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Lieutenant_0bvious t1_j62er2q wrote

NASA has no one to blame but themselves for Challenger and Columbia.

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Mad_Dizzle t1_j646opz wrote

It's easy to say that now. When you start at NASA, there's loads of employee training to do for a large number of reasons. One of these exercises that I distinctly remember was a sort of training scenario. They gave every one of us all this information, and we had to decide whether or not to greenlight the launch. Every single person in the group I was with chose to greenlight it. After that, they told us that was the exact scenario NASA leadership was in for Challenger. And we were all horrified.

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it_follows t1_j64hrkm wrote

So NASA leadership acted with the same aptitude as a group of new hires?

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Mad_Dizzle t1_j64n8sp wrote

The point is that a lot of learning is done in hindsight. NASA leadership wouldn't make the same mistake today, and neither would I now, but what's done is done. We honor the fallen and hope to improve from their sacrifice.

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dizforprez t1_j670t7g wrote

Was it really the exact same scenario? sounds like it was contrived to make a point.

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