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How the Challenger Disaster Changed NASA
« on: January 27, 2018, 11:53:24 am »
How the Challenger Disaster Changed NASA
By Amy Shira Teitel | January 26, 2018 11:39 am
 

By January of 1986 America was already bored with spaceflight.

It was, in part, NASA’s own fault. The government agency had debuted the space shuttle program five years earlier with an aggressive public-relations message that the reusable vehicles would make access to space both affordable and routine. Projected frequency: more than 50 flights a year.

But had space flight become… too routine?

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Re: How the Challenger Disaster Changed NASA
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2018, 06:31:03 pm »
Put on your management hat instead of your engineer hat and it will all make sense.........
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