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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41283)	11/7/1999 1:54:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Accountability BEFORE a disaster strikes is a difficult thing to instill into the members of a bureaucracy, it seems. I recently read speculation as to whether the Challenger disaster would have occurred if the doubts of the engineers about the O-ring had been listened to. As it was, NASA was unwilling to accept responsibility even after the fact. Reagan commissioned a fact-finding panel to inquire into the causes, and the finding about the O-ring was strenuously resisted by NASA, and was only allowed into the report as a sort of foot-note. Of course, it is now widely accepted that it was the failure of the O-ring that caused the disaster.