Petition to Honor Robert Ebeling, Who Tried to Stop the Challenger Launch
Let's ask the US Administration to confer some kind of honor on Robert Ebeling, the engineer at Thiokol who spoke up right before the space shuttle Challenger the night before its ill-fated launch.<p>Please click the link to sign the petition.<p>We know Thiokol and NASA went ahead in spite of his warning, and we know how well that worked out.<p>Recently it has come out that he was isolated by his company and colleagues after he spoke up.<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/464744781/30-years-after-disaster-challenger-engineer-still-blames-himself" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/464744781/...</a><p>Why honor him? Out of respect for him, and respect for engineers and quality-assurance people everywhere. Sometimes it stinks to be right, but part of engineering is being right and saying so.