Lessons From the Challenger Tragedy | Retro Report on PBS

Normalization of deviance, the process of becoming inured to risky actions, is a useful concept for today that was developed to explain how the Challenger disaster, and later the 2003 Columbia disaster, happened. Lesson plan for educators: https://bit.ly/RR-challenger

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