Failure Is Always an Option

Logic Bomb writes "The New York Times has a short but elegant op-ed regarding the different perspectives of engineers and managers and the role that plays in accidents like the space shuttle Columbia disaster. It's the sort of article you'll nod all the way through, then print and leave anonymously on your supervisor's desk. Any tech managers in the Slashdot crowd might have some interesting comments on how the right balance is struck." Henry Petroski has written several good books on engineering and failure.

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Thinking about the report, NASA

[WindBourne]

NASA is in for a lot of trouble still.
The report basically said that NASA needed to change as does the government's current perception. The changes needed was that basically saftey needed to be job #1
Yet, the commision decided to place the report on MS even after having taken a huge hit in the net.
routghly what that said was the the committee itself was kind of worthless. If they are not capable of decent logic,