Despite the months of televised hearings and exhaustive newspaper coverage, it was the first June Scobee and her family had heard about the teleconference the night before the launch, or how the NASA managers had ignored repeated warnings about the cold. “Those idiots!” twenty-two-year-old Rich Scobee said, and pounded his fist on the table.
436. This quote.
438-39. Astronauts were alive till the end.
444. Long feared once heat died down, NASA culture would return.
446. The foam chunks falling off amd hitting tiles had been deemed acceptable risk since the Young-Crippen days. Columbia was inevetable.
