> From: Bob Ammerman [mailto:rammerman@ADELPHIA.NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:22 AM
>
> There are two books by Richard Feynman, nobel laureate
> physicist, Manhatten
> Project scientist and curious character.
>
> "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman"
>
> and
>
> "What Do You Care What Other People Think"
>
> The second half of one of these (I believe it is "What Do You
> Care...")
> contains a detailed explanation of the operation of the
> Rogers Commission
> (which invested Challenger) from Feynman's point of view. He
> talks quite a
> bit to the men in the trenches and develops a thesis regarding the
> we-gotta-launch philosophy at NASA.

You guessed correctly, the book is "What Do You Care What Other People Think".
I met him between the publishing of "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" and the
shuttle disaster.  So I know he couldn't have written about it in his first
book.  He was an insightful man, but not a psychic.

-Mike

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