When Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight on the morning of 28 January 1986, it represented one of the most shocking events in the history of American spaceflight. A Presidential Commission was immediately convened to explore what had gone wrong, but with the vast complexity of the space shuttle and so many vested interests involved in the investigation, discovering the truth was an almost impossible challenge.
The drama, which stars William Hurt in the lead role, focuses on the Feynman’s involvement with the commission as it explores what went wrong – and it is the failure of management processes and communication that Feynman uncovers that is of particular interest to the MCT faculty. In support of this co-production, Ivan Horrocks has developed an interactive quiz that allows you to test your reactions to a number of difficult scenarios in the world of technology management.
What would you do? Could you lead an ethical investigation? Test your reactions to the kind of ethical, moral and political dilemmas that the Challenger disaster exposes with our online quiz.
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