Ominous note of caution

Memo from R. M. Boisjoly to R. K. Lund, 7/31/1985
Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards

On January 28, 1986, at 11:30, A.M. just one minute after lift off, the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew were destroyed in an explosion. Not long after the accident President Ronald Reagan ordered an independent commission to investigate. Roger Boisjoly, an employee at Morton Thiokol, Inc., worked on the team responsible for the development of the O-rings. He wrote this letter to Morton Thiokol’s Vice President of Engineering raising the possibility of a disastrous O-ring failure.

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    I had to do a policy analysis of the disaster for my Public Policy Final and it was not a pretty picture.
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    Actually discussed this in an engineering ethics course in college.
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    Wow…
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    :-(
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