The Challenger Disaster 
.... As if needing proof,
NASA engineers reclassified the deficient
O-
rings as Criticality-1, but no re-engineering action was taken. ....
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The Challenger
.... Just as the engineers were right in expressing their doubts about the
O-
rings, the
NASA officials were right in expressing their own doubts about what they saw ....
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Decision Making & The Challenger Disaster
.... of
NASA seemed not to have been warned adequately of the hazards of launching in cold weather, nor told emphatically enough of the need to redesign the
O-
rings ....
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The Challenger Disaster
.... of
NASA seemed not to have been warned adequately of the hazards of launching in cold weather, nor told emphatically enough of the need to redesign the
O-
rings ....
(1350
5
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Benefits of Space Exploration
.... respects except size with the
O-
rings used to shield liquid fuel materials from each other, laid bare a host of problems. He showed that
NASA scientists and ....
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24
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Motivations of Hackers
.... was 1 in 100 rather than the 1 in 100,000 that
NASA officials had claimed ("Challenger"). Feynman's discovery was that the rubber in the
O-
rings used to seal ....
(4410
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Hacking & Hackers
.... was 1 in 100 rather than the 1 in 100,000 that
NASA officials had claimed ("Challenger"). Feynman's discovery was that the rubber in the
O-
rings used to seal ....
(4411
18
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STRUCTURAL AND ELITE CRIME
.... identify various structural impediments in the management hierarchies of
NASA and Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of the defective
O-
rings which contributed ....
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Whistleblowing As An Ethical Dilemma
.... Recall the two Morton Thiokol engineers who back in 1986 courageously warned
NASA that the
O rings on the Challenger shuttle were faulty and urged that the ....
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