The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

This article (as it makes clear) owes it's analysis at least largely to what Tufte has written about the Challenger disaster (1986) and Columbia Disaster (2003). He wrote about the Columbia one more fully in the second edition of The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint.

Given that the link in the article to his report on his website is now broken, people might be interested in teh few page grabs that he has included in the "comments" on his site here[0].

See also the article that he has re-posted under the "comments" section on his page on the matter[1].

[0]: https://www.edwardtufte.com/notebook/new-edition-of-the-cogn... [1]: https://www.edwardtufte.com/notebook/the-columbia-evidence/

If you haven't read it, I highly suggest you read Feynman's addendum to the Challenger disaster report:

https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm

The words "a safety factor of three" will live with me for every day of my life.