Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle – R. P. Feynman (1986)

There's a book by a Dutch fellow about the disaster that is truly harrowing, it paints a picture in which NASA engineers fully understood the shuttle was going to blow, soon, and that's precisely why they were willing to cut so many corners - they knew that so many faults had already been built into the Shuttle that the chances that their additional cheat would be the final straw - rather than some other department's cheat - were very small.

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