Challenger's Crew Remembered, 25 Years After Disaster

Arnold Aldrich described five communication or organization failures that affected the decision to launch the Challenger that day. "Four of those failures relate directly to faults within the safety program," the report stated. "These faults include a lack of problem reporting requirements, inadequate trend analysis, misrepresentation of criticality and lack of involvement in critical discussions. A properly staffed, supported, and robust safety organization might well have avoided these faults and thus eliminated the communication failures."