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Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (Rogers Commission). Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. Washington, DC, 1986. https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/.
Why this matters here
The Rogers Commission report reconstructs the Challenger accident, including the January 27, 1986 teleconference, Morton Thiokol's low-temperature O-ring concerns, and the company's initial recommendation against launching below 53°F. The World We Make Together uses that decision sequence for how clock, hierarchy, and inconclusive prior data can keep engineering dissent from stopping a launch once schedule pressure owns the room.
