[Indy Pendance]

You're welcome. I happened to study this case in one of my grad classes. It's appalling that these so called managers overroad the lives of 7 people. Do you happen to know what happened to those managers?

[Desdemona]

Do you happen to know what happened to those managers?

No. My family got the unadulterated tale from somebody who was working at NASA in 1990. All I know is they kept passing the decision upwards. It was, like, five steps higher than normal. Nobody wanted to make it.

Then when Reagan set up the Blue Robbin panel, Chuck Yeager walked in, picked up a few reports, read them and said, Don't launch under 45 degrees. That was the end of him on the panel. A few years and millions of dollars later, the blue ribbon gang came up with, Don't launch under 45 degrees.