re: 29 years ago today: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded

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There was a good Freakonomics podcast about a engineer that warned them that it was risky to launch because the O-Rings had not been tested anywhere near that low of a temperature. They thought there was too much riding on the launch to delay it again, so they went forth anyways. Unfortunately he was correct. A tragedy that could have been avoided.

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This.

I knew an engineer related to the SRB issue who (after the fact) had so much self-guilt that he checked himself out. There are still folks around with Challenger and Columbia-related failure guilt. Tragic event.