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    This document contains details about the Challenger space shuttle disaster, including key points from the perspectives of Morton Thiokol and NASA. It outlines that Morton Thiokol initially recommended delaying the launch due to safety concerns with the O-rings at low temperatures but later reversed this decision. It also notes that NASA wanted to proceed with the launch despite being aware of issues with the O-rings performing at temperatures lower than previous launches.

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    This document contains details about the Challenger space shuttle disaster, including key points from the perspectives of Morton Thiokol and NASA. It outlines that Morton Thiokol initially recommended delaying the launch due to safety concerns with the O-rings at low temperatures but later reversed this decision. It also notes that NASA wanted to proceed with the launch despite being aware of issues with the O-rings performing at temperatures lower than previous launches.

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    EG 2401 Engineering Professionalism

    Tutorial 2 (Semester II 2019/20)

    Song Jian A0185235A

    Question 1

    1(a).

    Point Ethics Line-Drawing from POV of Party #1 Morton Location from


    Thiokol Left
    NP Recommend the launch to continue, ignore the obvious problems of Left point
    the cold weather compromising the O-rings and cause blow-by; and
    not informing NASA of the problems of the O-rings at low
    temperatures.
    PP Reverse the decision of allowing the launch to proceed, at the same Right point
    time working together with NASA to resolve the O-ring issues, and
    make a new recommendation of postponing the launch until the
    weather gets better (warmer) or until the problem has been properly
    solved.
    P1 Thiokol and NASA held a teleconference and discussed the issues Approx. 9/10
    with the O-ring at the evening before the launch and Thiokol could from Left
    not recommend launch if the temperature was below 53°F.
    P2 Lund of Thiokol reversed his previous decision of postpending the Approx. 0.5/10
    launch and instead recommended the launch to proceed.
    Additionally, Thiokol were already aware of problems with the O-
    rings.
    SC1 Thiokol to recommend that the launch should be delayed until the Approx. 6/10
    temperature could be at least 30°F, where Thiokol had performed
    sub-scale tests on, and they saw no leakage.
    Point Ethics Line-Drawing from POV of Party #2 NASA Location from
    Left
    NP Allow the launch to proceed despite knowing that the temperatures Left point
    on the day of launch were very low and low temperature may cause
    the O-rings to fail.
    PP Delay the launch until the weather gets warmer and ensure that Right point
    Thiokol conduct more thorough investigative tests to find out if
    there is a connection between the low temperature and the O-ring
    blow-by problem. If there is a correlation, delay the launch until the
    problem is solved.
    P1 NASA expected low temperatures on the day of launch, checked Approx. 9/10
    with all the space shuttle contractors to determine if they foresaw from Left
    any problems with launching the shuttle at low temperature.
    P2 NASA did not want to postpone the launch, despite they was already Approx. 1/10
    informed that the predicted temperatures (in the low 20°F) was lower
    than the lowest 53°F of previous launches where there was already
    “blow-by” problems of the O-rings.
    P3 Larry Mulloy, pointed out that the data that Thiokol had presented Approx. 4/10
    was inconclusive and disagreed with them, even though he may
    have known that there had in fact been blow-by problem of the O-
    rings at 53°F on a previous launch.
    P4 When the launch was recommended, Allan McDonald, who was the Approx. 4.5/10
    Thiokol’s director of the Solid Rocket Booster project, found out
    and attempted to convince NASA to delay the launch, NASA did not
    take his views into consideration
    SC1 When NASA had already knew of the inherent problems with the O- Approx. 8/10
    rings, question Thiokol on the reasons behind their decision to
    reverse the decision of delaying the launch until better weather.

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