What Wayne Hale thinks about aviation

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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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1. 3 Mar 2019

   Our readingWanting badly to launch is itself a hazard: the pressure to fly is what turns small anomalies into accidents.

   Their wordsTemptation is very high to wave away issues, ignore anomalies, squeeze the rules, or brush aside inconsistencies just to GET ON WITH IT.

   ↗Launch Feverwaynehale.wordpress.com