To be honest, I think you are - to an extent - falling into the same trap that the managers fell into at Thiokol: namely, assuming that your view of the situation is complete and that input from other work groups can be disregarded.<p>In reality, it&#x27;s a <i>very</i> big problem for companies to disappoint their large customers (as NASA certainly was for Morton-Thiokol at the time), and I suspect that the engineers would have been quite annoyed at management if the ultimate result of a launch no-go was fewer contracts, lower pay and&#x2F;or job losses.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say that management did the right thing, of course, just that &quot;lol management just throws some buzzwords around and never attempts to understand the problem&quot; is basically the same attitude that caused this disaster - just seen from an engineering viewpoint.