“Mr. Chairman, Al McDonald from Morton Thiokol wanted to make a point.” “I wanted to say a point about the meeting,” McDonald began, his hands trembling. He described how he had been at the Cape when he received the first call from Thiokol about the cold, and asked to set up the teleconference the night before the accident; he explained how he had sat in Trailer Complex C with Larry Mulloy, and received the data by fax from the engineers in Utah. “The recommendation at that time,” he said, “was not to launch below 53 degrees Fahrenheit.” General Kutyna asked what the actual temperature at
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389. This exchange.
422. Unravelling NASA wishful thinking while engineers went unheard
