For more background on the engineer-manager disconnect that led to the Challenger disaster, it's worth reading about Richard Feynman's famous appendix to the Ro

For more background on the engineer-manager disconnect that led to the Challenger disaster, it's worth reading about Richard Feynman's famous appendix to the Rogers report (even Wikipedia's summary is a fascinating read): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_of_Richard_Feynman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_o...