> Russell McMahon wrote:
>
> >> 2.  For the first time since Apollo, an escape tower will be used,
> >> which would have saved the crew in the Challenger accident.
> >
> >
> > The sad thing is that a parachute on the crew module might have saved
> > the crew in Challenger.
> >
> I thought the real sad thing was that if management would've listened to
> the Morton Thiokol engineers about the o-ring problem, they wouldn't
> have even needed a parachute.
>
> http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~jackh/eod/engineer/engineer-219.html
>

I recently read an accounting of the events from Roger M. Boisjoly the
Morton Thiokol engineer that originally raised the concern. According to his
account it wasn't NASA that refused to listen, Morton Thiokol management
overrode his recommendation to not launch.

The article I read was in Computer and Engineering Ethics by Deb Johnson,
but a quick google turned up this online copy of his article:
http://onlineethics.org/essays/shuttle/ Especially notice the part titled
Telcon Meeting.

-Denny

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