“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
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Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (Primary source)
A devastatingly frank appendix to the presidential report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, wherein Richard Feynman exposed the chasm between NASA management’s optimistic reliability estimates and engineering reality, offering an unvarnished dissection of institutional failure that became a landmark in government accountability.
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