Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space — Why Warnings Failed
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Adam Higginbotham
This episode explores Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham as a systems-level analysis of how institutional pressure, bureaucratic incentives, and normalized risk influenced engineering decisions and catastrophic outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than isolated technical failure, the episode examines how NASA gradually transformed recurring warning signs into routine procedure — and why systems that survive…
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