Wayne Hale
Retired NASA engineer and manager, a Space Shuttle flight director for forty missions and Space Shuttle Program Manager or Deputy for five years. Writes about risk, engineering judgement and the Columbia accident at waynehale.wordpress.com.
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Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backFor all those years I had learned the wrong lesson about the loss of Challenger.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsThe sound-bite explanation kept me in ignorance.