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Journalists and investigators have historically cited production problems and managerial wrong. Diane vaughan recreates the steps leading up to that fateful decision, contradicting conventional interpretations to prove that what occurred at nasa was not skullduggery or misconduct but a disastrous mistake. Challenger, columbia and the nature of calamity the new. Risky technology, culture, and deviance at nasa 1996, diane vaughan, a professor of sociology at columbia university, seeks to explain the challenger disaster by analyzing the corporate culture at nasa.
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