Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
Did he? My understanding was that the engineering manager in question was Allan MacDonald, and he refused to sign off on flight. The decision was taken out of his hands and authorisation signed by a non-engineering manager above him?
The chap I'm thinking of was Bob Lund (Engineering VP). Allan McDonnald was the MT SRB director located in the NASA facility, so he wasn't involved in the discussions with the working-level engineers at MT.
PDR