But McDonald found those anomalies he deemed unacceptable equally stressful: in doing so, he sometimes had to convince both his own management at Thiokol and those at NASA to scrap pieces of hardware they had previously considered completely flightworthy,
203. The adverserial role flips. Prove they aren't safe.
207. NASA finally rules seals as single point failure, yet Utah and Huntsville see it as normal problems.
213. Suicide mission in space to rescue earlier satellites lost, despite a size problem, they pushed for mission sucess. With that, recaptured the public mind. Most ambitious PR campaign about to begin.