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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!emory!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary
  3. From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
  4. Subject: Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan7.080918.1849@ke4zv.uucp>
  6. Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
  7. Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
  8. References: <19519.2b2f721a@levels.unisa.edu.au> <1992Dec28.163339.25647@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725659270@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan4.164516.10926@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.726184593@convex.convex.com>
  9. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:09:18 GMT
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  12. In article <ewright.726184593@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
  13. >
  14. >Of course, the Rogers Commission, headed by a State Department
  15. >carreer bureaucrat with no knowledge of engineering or technology,
  16. >didn't say that.  Instead, they blamed NASA -- as you blame NASA --
  17. >for being too "success oriented" (!) because somewhere along the
  18. >line, someone, somewhere actually took a chance to get the thing
  19. >to work.
  20.  
  21. Yeah, a management asshole said fuck the temperature, screw the
  22. engineers who say don't launch when it's this cold, we're listening
  23. to Edward V. Wright and taking a chance. God are you an idiot.
  24.  
  25. Gary
  26.  
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