The Model Room · MR-019
She Gave Them One In One Hundred. They Filed One In One Hundred Thousand. She Kept Both.
NASA risk analyst Judith Resnik submitted a catastrophic risk assessment of 1 in 100, while the public document filed by the agency estimated it at a more optimistic 1 in 100,000. Despite the discrepancy, both numbers coexisted until the tragic loss of Challenger on January 28, 1986.
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