This episode is a follow-on from our previous episode about the Apollo space program. Marcel and Todd talk about the failures surrounding the Challenger Disaster as a cautionary tail for today’s leaders to consider to avoid the same pitfalls. Please listen to “The Challenger Disaster: You’re wrong about - The Challenger Disaster” - 3rd Jan 2019 by Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes for full context: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-challenger-disaster/id1380008439?i=1000465289942 Please also listen to our previous podcast about the Apollo program as this is a follow-on discussion: https://burnupmedia.com/2020/04/13/ep23-learnings-from-the-space-industry-part-1of2-apollo-11/ The following topics are covered: - The impact the challenger disaster had on NASA and our recollection of events - The findings of the rogers commission - Importance of listening to expertise - Preventing a silo effect, where the procedures put in place box in taking logical action - Designing for safety and understanding safe parameters, risk and probability - The importance of communication unfiltered by middle managers - Findings of the house of representatives committee report - Dian Vaughn’s (sociologist) 1996 analysis of the disaster - Government contracting and its role in the disaster - High turnover at NASA and its role in the disaster - A discussion about SpaceX and how they are approaching spaceship development is a more Agile way We hope you enjoy this episode. As always please feel free to give us feedback and share. Show Notes The Challenger Disaster: You’re wrong about - The Challenger Disaster - 3rd Jan 2019 by Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-challenger-disaster/id1380008439?i=1000465289942 Challenger Disaster footage with radio loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqOdAi_t2c Radio communication transcript: https://history.nasa.gov/transcript.html Rogers Commission report https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/outreach/SignificantIncidents/assets/rogers_commission_report.pdf Richard Feynman at commission hearing demonstrates the o-ring issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMmRKGkGD4 House of representatives report https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRPT-99hrpt1016/pdf/GPO-CRPT-99hrpt1016.pdf Controversial Edward Tuft diagram analysis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11520001_Representation_and_Misrepresentation_Tufte_and_the_Morton_Thiokol_Engineers_on_the_Challenger Dian Vaughn’s (sociologist) 1996 analysis of all 200k documents (by then the incident is a full fledged field of research, most based only on the exec summaries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Vaughan – More information at https://www.theburnup.com This podcast produced by Burn Up Media Ltd under under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Further Information at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/