Diane Vaughan (1996), The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA, University of Chicago Press — DOI-10.7208/chicago/9780226851785.001.0001
Key takeaways
Registered, not read. What the record holds of it comes through the Columbia Accident Investigation Board’s chapter 8 (LIT-734). The chapter cites the book for its central claim that engineering decisions on O-ring erosion normalized the anomaly, and cites its pages for the Challenger decision history. Vaughan was a researcher for the Board, but the chapter is unsigned, so nothing it says is attributed to her here.
Standing in the record
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