The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch

Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by sjm-lbm on Friday June 21, 2024 @10:58AM (#40750325)

I hadn't heard of McDonald either, but there's a recent book (https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Spa...) that covers his contribution well.

(TBH I'm reading this book right now - probably 2/3 the way through or so - and it's kind of weird to see something like this randomly pop up on HN today.)

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Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by aybs on Friday June 21, 2024 @11:28AM (#40750618)

I just listened to the audio book on spotify, free for premium members, and I'm wondering if that's why I'm seeing so much about the Challenger disaster lately. Well worth a listen, and spends a great deal of time on setup for these key individuals who tried so hard to avert this disaster.

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Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by autoexec on Friday June 21, 2024 @12:29PM (#40751171)

Boeing's Starliner problems? This article was probably brought on by the (then) recent passing of Allan McDonald

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