Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: INTERESTED IN REVIEWS OF CHALLENGER
Message-ID: <1990Mar4.003637.13575@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <18626.25e9591a@merrimack.edu> <61@newave.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 90 00:36:37 GMT

In article <61@newave.UUCP> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>I am still disappointed that NASA (managers) did not recogize that booster
>leakage could lead to a mission failure.  They seemed to know that there
>was a problem with booster leakage, but they were not worried enough about
>the problem to stop launching.

The best way to avoid this would be to occasionally fly with a passenger,
picked at random from among NASA and contractor managers.  Then we wouldn't
hear any of this nonsense about "take off your engineering hat and put on
your management hat".

Unfortunately, there are no plans to do that.  Moving (ex-)astronauts into
management is not nearly as good, but at least NASA has managed to do some
of that.
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