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The problem was that NASA administrators would lose their jobs if they admitted the shuttle project was in such trouble in 1980.
by RachelF 13y ago
The problem was that NASA administrators would lose their jobs if they admitted the shuttle project was in such trouble in 1980.
- leoc 13y agoEven after the Challenger disaster people were afraid. Feynmann didn't discover the O-ring problem so much as learn about it through tip-offs from NASA insiders (something he freely acknowledged later). They'd got him onto the investigation panel because he was someone with the public stature, and of course the personality, to stick his head up and report it.