-for the second time in nasa s history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we d heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today s problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn t have the answers. in every public forum i m gonna have to be in, how am i gonna explain this to anybody? at this time, we have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground. -nasa never wants to look stupid. nasa wants to be the agency with the answers. -my thoughts are on what we missed, what i missed to allow this to happen. -but if you overlook something, it will come to bite you one day or anot
the concluding sentence the rationale was lousy then and it still is. what i take that to mean is that linda ham is raising a concern, but they appear to rely on the fact that previous flights which had suffered this foam loss, had returned safely. in other words, we ve gotten away with this . this is a failure to learn from past similar events, simply because those flights did not have catastrophic consequences. the classic the classic normalisation of deviance. -you have to make sure that every incident is thoroughly investigated and properly assessed. and that wasn t done for the 112 foam loss. -people were saying they were willing to accept the risk. what they didn t understand is how much risk they were accepting.
Was lousy. The rationale states, we havent changed anything, we havent experienced any safety of Flight Damage in 112 flights. the Concluding Sentence the rationale was lousy then and it still is. What i take that to mean is that Linda Ham is raising a concern, but they appear to rely on the fact that previous flights which had suffered this foam loss, had returned safely. In other words, weve gotten away with this. This is a failure to learn from past similar events, simply because those flights did not have catastrophic consequences. The classic the classic normalisation of deviance. You have to make sure that every incident is thoroughly investigated and properly assessed. And that wasnt done for the 112 foam loss