Morton Thiokol
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The company that manufactured the rocket boosters for the Challenger Space Shuttle, whose engineers' concerns about cold weather were overruled.
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Peter Attia MD
The rocket booster contractor for the Space Shuttle Challenger. Its engineers raised concerns about the cold weather launch but were pressured to quantify risks in a way that couldn't be met with available data.
Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong
Veritasium
The company that manufactured the rocket boosters for the Challenger Space Shuttle, whose engineers' concerns about cold weather were overruled.