If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform. Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. (And) you will have no regrets for the rest of your life.” “It was always, always do the right thing for the right reason at the right time with the right people. “What we should remember about Al McDonald (is) he would often stress his laws of the seven R’s,” Maier told NPR. McDonald retired from Morton Thiokol in 2001 and later co-authored a book titled “Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster.” He also went on to speak and lead ethical decision-making and leadership seminars with Mark Maier of Chapman University, who produced a documentary about the launch decision. Given the commission’s threat, Morton Thiokol promoted McDonald to vice president and tasked him with improving the rocket joints that failed during Challenger’s launch. The presidential commission was alarmed at Morton Thiokol’s decision to punish McDonald and introduced a joint resolution that threatened to prevent Morton Thiokol from receiving further contracts from NASA. McDonald’s comments to the commission led to him temporarily losing his position with Morton Thiokol, being demoted. The focus of the commission’s investigation shifted to the booster rocket O-rings, and the concerns and efforts of McDonald and his engineers to stop the launch which were ignored by NASA officials. NASA spent some 22 million on the shuttle salvage operation alone, utilizing Coast Guard crews, Navy specialists, contract divers, unmanned submersibles and research subs to pinpoint and recover.
I sure hope nothing happens tomorrow, but if it does, I am not going to be the person to stand in front of a board of inquiry and explain why I gave you permission to fly my rocket boosters in an environment I knew they would never qualify to fly in.'” “NASA finally said, ‘Al, we’ll pass this on in an advisory capacity,'” McDonald told the Los Angeles Times about the launch decision in 2016 when he donated his papers to Chapman University.
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