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billybobsky
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2012-02-07, 12:28

That's a classic example of corporate culture gone wrong. NASA would have scrubbed the launch if the component supplier definitively stated that there was a problem.

What I find funny here is that Richard Feynman is known for 'discovering' the low temperature brittleness of the connectors during a committee meeting about the disaster by placing one of the components in ice cold water and snapping it apart. Only issue is that this engineer and others had written reports that Feynman and the committee had seen, so Feynman didn't discover anything and the story is more than grandiose.
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