Dear Mic,
Feynman’s appendix to the Rogers Commission report on the Challenger disaster is useful, but he is far more blunt and direct in the chapter he wrote in his own book. Equally relevant to Thomas’s video is Feynman’s description of the problems of examining and reporting on the disaster.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/0141030887/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436691103&sr=1-4&keywords=Feynman
The report focuses on the disaster and the scientific, engineering, and human factors in the disaster itself. The book chapter describes the context and culture in a richer way — as well as the inability of the government commission to examine and learn from the disaster. While Feynman’s testimony remains the public face of the commission, Feynman’s book chapter describes how hard it was for him to put his findings in the report. His appendix was not welcome. Rather, the commission included it when he threatened to withdraw his name from the signed report.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Elsevier in Cooperation with Tongji University | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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Mic Porter wrote:
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Richard Feynman’s appendix “ observations on the reliability of the Shuttle” (volume 2, appendix F of the “Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident” (“Rogers Commission”) can be found on the NASA site.
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm
A complementary and compelling and moral perspective is Michael Davis’s “Thinking Like an Engineer: The Place of a Code of Ethics in the Practice of a Profession”. (Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 1991), pp. 150-167.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2265293
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