>Investigative journalism on NASA ignoring problems prior to the Challenger and Columbia disasters could have prevented both disasters. I think this suffers fr

>Investigative journalism on NASA ignoring problems prior to the Challenger and Columbia disasters could have prevented both disasters. I think this suffers from hindsight bias. For every catastrophic o-ring or foam shedding there are hundreds or thousands of other low-probability events that people were “sure” would cause problems but never did. The difficulty isn’t in identifying possible issues as much as assigning each a credible risk.