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> In any event, NASA has instituted procedures to try an empower engineers to hold managers accountable

And yet, Columbia happened. Again, concerns from engineers were dismissed.




Yep. And EVA-23 almost became another catastrophe 10 years later.

I'm not making a claim they are perfect, but they may strive to be. Columbia instituted more changes, including a completely separate safety technical authority. This is a separate signatory who must approve operational decisions and (in theory) doesn't face the same schedule pressure. I'm still somewhat personally skeptical if this will avoid such further incidents because much of these are rooted in humans inability to understand risk in a statistical manner.




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