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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

freakazoid@retro.social ("Charles against genocide") wrote:

Challenger, Columbia, and Therac-25 should be required reading for basically everyone.

Beyond the actual circumstances surrounding the Challenger explosion and the ensuing coverup, I strongly recommend Richard Feynman's "Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle" which talks about why unsafety was baked into the Shuttle from the very start.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm