[avg_freeper]

While being shown around an apartment complex by a young lady that worked there I happened to mention that I was an aerospace engineer. She replied that she used to be an engineer too. I was wondering why in sam-hill anyone with an engineering degree and experience would be working for some apartment.

She then told me that in the company she started working for, she was in the department that manufactured and assembled the failed solid rocket booster. She quit immediately after the crash. I didn't ask her any more questions about her engineering career.

[Desdemona]

She then told me that in the company she started working for, she was in the department that manufactured and assembled the failed solid rocket booster.

It wasn't their fault. Those engineers were hung out to dry. As much as love all the technology and the space program and the ingenuity of the people who made it all work, at some point it must be recognized that the Challenger explosion was the result of a bad decision. It was NOT the engineers at Morton-Thyacol.