This isn't getting swept under the rug successfully, everybody who spends a few hours researching shuttle knows this. However having o-rings that are this frag

This isn't getting swept under the rug successfully, everybody who spends a few hours researching shuttle knows this. However having o-rings that are this fragile was a large part of the problem with shuttle. It was fragile, to get it to be able to launch at all an increasing amount of issues had to be ignored. To many failure points, leading to far to many close calls. What is actually surprising is that only 2 shuttles failed.