At 11:15 PM 9/23/2005 +1200, you wrote:
>I may be almost two decades late with this - I've never seen it before and 
>I've no idea how I came to arrive at this page. (Maybe a link from one of 
>the two lists I'm posting this to? :-( ).
>
>        http://onlineethics.org/essays/shuttle/#abstr
>
>A detailed paper by a disgruntled ex Morton Thiokol employee detailing the 
>history as he sees it that lead up to MT making (he says) dubious 
>decisions that lead to the Challenger disaster. Very old hat now but makes 
>interesting reading and plenty of lessons to apply to other areas.

I highly recommend "What Do You Care What Other People Think" by
Richard Feynman. Roughly the last half of the book is devoted to his
time on the Rogers commission investigating the Challenger disaster.
He describes his impressions of Boisjoly, Lund, and Thompson, and puts
it into perspective with a sort of 'control' investigation of the Shuttle
engines.

Best regards,

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