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How about building a space shuttle carrying 7 humans to space but it fails because of a <$1 o-ring? Then knowing that engineers had sounded specific warnings prior that were ignored by management.

We've seen these failure stories time and again to various repercussions, but they seem to all come down to some form of greed whether it be reputational or monetary.



Note that the O-rings were 12 feet in diameter - they encircled the entire solid rocket booster. They definitely didn't cost less than a dollar.


Sorry, got my Challenger and Apollo 13 price for failed part confused with each other.

So, yeah, how about building a rocket designed to send three humans to the moon, but failed because of some <$1 part?


> The cause of the disaster was the failure of the two redundant O-ring seals in a joint in the shuttle's right solid rocket booster (SRB).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_dis...




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