RE: An urban legend regarding documentation?

["Westbrook,Beth" <beth -dot- westbrook -at- dhs -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us>]

I actually read three or four different accounts of this in grad school. The
authors I remember reading were Dorothy Windsor (article), Edward Tufte (in
one of his books), and Patrick Moore (article).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilda Spitz [mailto:gaspitz -at- longview -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:00 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: An urban legend regarding documentation?
> 
> I have a question about the Challenger disaster, regarding 
> its documentation. 
> 
> I heard a rumour that the person writing documentation for 
> NASA wanted to insert a warning regarding the O rings, but 
> was instructed to omit it. I suspect this is an urban legend, 
> but I haven't been able to find anything relevant on my usual 
> Urban Legend Web site.
> 
> Does anyone in Techwr-l know anything about this, to either 
> prove or disprove the story?
> 

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