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Impact
Every product creates value, and every decision has a trade-off. Good founders stay honest about both.
Positive
- +Helped communicate the gap between engineering evidence and management claims.
Trade-offs
- ±A famous individual can overshadow the engineers and investigators whose work supplied crucial evidence.
What to remember
If you had to explain this story to a friend, what would you want them to remember?
- Break a large question into testable parts.
- Do not confuse one test with a complete cause.
- Communicate evidence clearly.
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Sources & further reading
- NASA, Rogers Commission Report - https://sma.nasa.gov/SignificantIncidents/assets/rogers_commission_report.pdf
- US Government Publishing Office, Challenger Accident Report - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRPT-99hrpt1016/pdf/GPO-CRPT-99hrpt1016-1.pdf