Tag: NASA Project Lessons
🚀 The Challenger Disaster – When Quality Lost to Pressure
1. The Morning That Changed Project Quality Forever January 28, 1986, dawned unusually cold at the Kennedy Space Center. Frost covered the launch pad. NASA’s engineers, watching weather reports, grew uneasy. They knew the O-rings — tiny rubber seals in the solid rocket boosters — had a dangerous weakness: they lost elasticity in low temperatures.…
