But suppose the situation had been posed as a scenario on the ground, when writing mission rules. Under those circumstances, would Tindall’s Mission Techniques meetings have come up with a rule saying that if the spacecraft is hit by lightning and the electrical system goes down and the platform tumbles, our Standard Operating Procedure will be to conduct an hour-and-a-half check and, if nothing seems wrong, continue? Well, said an Apollo veteran, now a senior NASA manager, maybe not. Or suppose, twenty years later, after the Challenger accident, that a comparable situation were to occur with
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