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Space Shuttle Era - Foam, Fire, and Falling: How Columbia's Loss Exposed NASA's Unlearned Lessons

Space Shuttle Era - Foam, Fire, and Falling: How Columbia's Loss Exposed NASA's Unlearned Lessons

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 Griffin Rowe examines how NASA's Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003 mirrored Challenger's institutional failures seventeen years earlier. The episode traces how a foam strike during launch went unaddressed, killing seven astronauts during reentry, exposing NASA's normalization of deviance and unlearned lessons about organizational culture and risk.

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