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Then they keep launching with lower strictness "because it worked last time" until something else fails. Feynman's section of the investigation report is basica

Then they keep launching with lower strictness "because it worked last time" until something else fails. Feynman's section of the investigation report is basically the argument that's what was already happening at NASA and the O-rings were just the first thing to fail catastrophically.

nordsieck 2y ago
That's exactly what happened with tile damage. The very first Shuttle flight - STS-1 experienced serious tile damage. And others (famously, the antenna mission) had similar experiences. But it wasn't until the Columbia disaster that anyone suffered for it.