Posted on 02/07/2012 1:43:28 PM PST by EveningStar
The night before the 1986 explosion, Boisjoly and four others argued that joints in the shuttle's boosters couldn't withstand a cold-weather launch.
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Challenger: The Untold Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZzRmpa1iA
Seconds From Disaster - The Challenger Explosion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1kfk3STHyg
Ethics In Business - The Challenger Disaster Case Study
by Roger Boisjoly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On9p0Q9eKr4
Roger Boisjoly RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnX_7QxB3R0
Thanks for the ping, sad to lose such a fine man. NASA should be ashamed, both accidents were easily preventable.
He punted.
It crashed as predicted in 2011.
Roger was one of my heroes.
It’s not the fault of the managers or the employees. It’s the fault of the managerial system ~ it has failed, utterly so!
Systems do not exist. People do. People are responsible for their actions.
Me too, I got fired but I was right and I started the company that fired me! Well late company would be more correct since they went belly up a couple of years later. Not life and death thank goodness. G*d bless the whistle blowers.
Yes, I remember his standard put down: "Rest well, sir."
Reagan was a wonderful president, his speech at NASA JSC really helped weal the wound.
ooops heal not weal
But I bet the most of the managers in NASA and Morton Thiokol who voted, “go for launch” were promoted later.
IIRC, they were. The whistle-blowers like this fellow were trashed.
Feynman also blamed management.
Sound like Obama and the Volt...
Ditto that the study of economics and how the the non-logical non engineering types will give that horses ass and his theory Lord Maynard Keynes another college try vs. the Smith, Austrian, Hayek, Laffer and Milton F theories a whirl which we know will work.
Monty wanted to be aggressive like Patton. He had the motivation, but not one tenth the talent.
Other organizations either paying, or about to pay a huge price. Likely that the persons most responsible will walk:
Carnival Cruise lines
Penn State University
Catholic Church
Tokyo Electric
LA Unified Schools
RIP Roger, one of the good guys. If my memory is correct, he did Congressional hearings, on the subject on TV.
What "middle" picture do you mean?
This guy was a case study in one of my grad courses on management. RIP, you tried, management sucked.
I remember the circumstances well. It was a classic case of media pressure and management arrogance resulting in disaster. There had been delay after delay with that launch and the media almost demanded that this one not be scrubbed.
I watched on TV while the ground crew chipped icicles from the Shuttle's scaffolding and told my wife there were too many unknowns in launching with temperatures that low. But the media kept up an insistent, almost threatening drumbeat, and both Thiokol and NASA management caved.
It was almost like watching the slow unfolding of a Greek tragedy by Euripides or Sophocles. I still get a queasy stomach when I think about it. The Greeks had a word for what caused NASA's tragedy: hubris.
RIP.
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