Diane Vaughan
Autor de The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
Sobre El Autor
Diane Vaughan is professor of sociology and international and public affairs at Columbia University.
Obras de Diane Vaughan
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- 20th Century
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- USA
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- 5
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- 4.0
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- 8
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- 20
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Diane Vaughan paints a compelling picture that the decision to launch was in fact much more complicated than that. The culture of the managers and engineers contributed to a fundamental misunderstanding of the SRB joint and a continuation of launching even with deviant joint behavior (blow-by and erosion).
I felt that the book was repetitive at times. However, sometimes (but not all the time) I was glad for the repetition as it really made some connections a lot more clear to me, and reminded me of points that I may not have remembered from earlier in the book.
The expanded version contains information about the Columbia disaster in the preface. I sort of wished there had been an afterward with more Columbia details as well. It's sad that so many people died due to the normalization of deviance in regards to both the SRB joint behavior and foam shedding from the ET. Astronauts know that they have inherently risky jobs, but they trust everybody at NASA and all of the contractors and subcontractors to be on top of their game.
The only thing I really disliked about this book was in the publishing itself. It looked like a photocopy of a mimeograph that had then been scanned and uploaded into Microsoft Paint and then printed out in book form. It was seriously difficult to read at times. One would think that in 2016, when the new version of this book was published, it would be possible to print a 500+ page book without cutting off the ends of all of the words in the margins.… (más)