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Old 01-28-2020, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by parris View Post
I've seen a few videos of the engineers who's decisions were overridden the days approaching the launch. It was sobering to say the least due to the fact that there were several in the MT company that gave no go to this launch but weren't listened to as was supposed to be company policy. Then after the explosion these same people were almost scapegoated by management of both their company and NASA.

I was between classes in the student union of my local community college and watched it as it happened.
Boeing, anyone?
We learn heartbreaking lessons, then corporate greed always wins out over safety in due time, until we have to learn the lesson again. Rinse and repeat.
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