40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw
(2025/01/28)
O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the
system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed,
analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
-- Bruce Leverett, "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"