Sublime

committee, and I assume in the legal process that may follow, you are going to suggest to a court that you were engaged in a conversation and a decision to launch a $4 billion vehicle with seven lives aboard, and although one of your engineers was on the site and on the phone with you, you never really questioned his contrary judgment. You did so w

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NASA's Lawrence Mulloy, SRB Project Manager in Huntsville, had looked me directly in the eye from across the table at KSC when the request was made to put the launch recommendation and rationale in writing and sign it. I told Mulloy that I would not sign that recommendation and that it would have to come from the plant in Utah. It appeared to me th

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On the screen, I saw President Reagan shake hands with several members of the Presidential Commission, congratulating them for a job well done. The newscaster reported that the Commission had concluded that the Challenger accident had been caused by the failure of an O-ring in a joint of the right solid rocket booster, which had been precipitated b

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