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What bums me out is the Thiokol executives who really were responsible for this national tragedy, did they ever feel any remorse? Did they repay their debts?

• protomyth 11y ago
  I would not let the NASA administrator off the hook, either. I would say they are just or even nor responsible.
• niccaluim 11y ago
  And what's worse, we don't even know their names. Ebeling's name is everywhere, but the people who are at fault? Just "management."
• bpodgursky 11y ago
  > Ebeling helped assemble the data that demonstrated the risk. Boisjoly argued for a launch delay. At first, the Thiokol executives agreed and said they wouldn't approve the launch. > "My God, Thiokol," responded Lawrence Mulloy of NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center. "When do you want me to launch? Next April?" > Despite hours of argument and reams of data, the Thiokol executives relented. McDonald says the data were absolutely clear, but politics and pressure interfered. I'd put it more on NASA, if that is accurate. Not entirely, but more.
• thangalin 11y ago
  http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v1ch6.htm http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v1ch6.htm http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm