The Flight Readiness Review meetings were designed to hammer out this consensus upon the anvil of the scientific method, using data and engineering logic to exclude disagreement, emotion, and faulty analysis from the launch decision chain.
178. Your Arguments aren't worth shit. Complicating matters, NASA and contractors often worked side by side, somtimes in the same office.
179. Managers also considered cost, time, engineers below them had to fight for issues to be adressed.
Thiokol nozzle began to burn through in flight. NASA threatened to find new supplier, the company would be in bad shape.
