Challenger : the anatomy of a flawed decision.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1993Description: 22 pSubject: Challenger was an avoidable disaster waiting to happen. This paper deals with the Challenger case as a study in flawed decision making. Using decision-making characteristics, strategies, and models, it is determined that NASA's decision makers completely underestimated the potentially calamitous consequences of the Challenger launch. NASA's decision makers disregarded every constraint that militated against a decision to launch Challenger. No alternatives were considered. The launch of Challenger became a surrogate objective displacing the presidential mission objective of linking the Earth to a space station by a fleet of operational spacecraft. Challenger's catastrophe ensued from a flawed process that culminated in a decision with a fatal outcome. A repetition can and must be avoided
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Bibliography: p. 182-183
Reprinted from Technology in Society; 1993; Vol. 15; No. 2; p. 161-183
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Challenger was an avoidable disaster waiting to happen. This paper deals with the Challenger case as a study in flawed decision making. Using decision-making characteristics, strategies, and models, it is determined that NASA's decision makers completely underestimated the potentially calamitous consequences of the Challenger launch. NASA's decision makers disregarded every constraint that militated against a decision to launch Challenger. No alternatives were considered. The launch of Challenger became a surrogate objective displacing the presidential mission objective of linking the Earth to a space station by a fleet of operational spacecraft. Challenger's catastrophe ensued from a flawed process that culminated in a decision with a fatal outcome. A repetition can and must be avoided
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