[Born to Conserve]

The_Doc:

The NASA management said that the engineers who looked at the video said that the object disintegrated into a puff of dust. The video shows clearly that the object is intact after the collision. They were wrong. What does that say about NASA engineering managment?

I would speculate that the engineers are burdened by "management" to the point of being incapacitated. I would speculate that most critical engineers have moved on in disgust, leaving the easily cowed engineers to engineer what the management wants them to engineer.

When this investigation is done, they will have to admit what everyone knows: that the left wing tiles were damaged by an object observed during launch, that there was no attempt to determine the extent of the damage, and that seven people died unnecessarily.

I'm sure you'll say that we can't know these things for certain, and we should therfore let the people who made the mistakes run the investigation.

By the way, do you work for NASA?

[the_doc]

I don't work for NASA, but I don't think you have the story straight yet.