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The Challenger disaster

Augustin at the Israeli Conference on Systems Engineering held at the Technion, January 2012

Norman Augustin, former CEO of Lockheed Martin: You cannot prevent malfunctions in the components of complex systems, but you can make sure that a malfunction in them does not bring down the system

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A telescope photograph of the shuttle Columbia on its last flight

Why is the space shuttle era ending?

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Prof. Douglas Osheroff, 1996 Nobel Prize laureate in physics. From Wikipedia

If they had listened to Feynman in the Challenger, the Columbia disaster would not have happened

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The landing compartment of the Apollo 13 spacecraft as photographed in 2014 on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: shutterstock

From Soyuz to Challenger

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The ring froze, the shuttle exploded

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