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Lessons From the Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy

Season 1 Episode 7

A new understanding of risk emerged from the study of a NASA disaster.

Normalization of deviance, the process of becoming inured to risky actions, is a useful concept for today that was developed to explain how the Challenger disaster happened.

AIR DATE 10/28/19

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About Retro Report On PBS

Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past. Join journalists Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz adds his signature wit.

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