The tragic crash of the Virgin Galactic spacecraft carries lessons for all of us. Do failures happen because humans make mistakes? Or do they happen because we design systems that ultimately fail us as humans?

Detailed article on the disaster can be found at  https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/52fa7d_155a03ee1ac745c7a6edd76118a71e16.pdf

The National Transportation Safety Board's report can be found at http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR1502.pdf

The National Transportation Safety Board video of the seconds leading up to the disaster can be found at http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2015_spaceship2_BMG.aspx

The tragic crash of the Virgin Galactic spacecraft carries lessons for all of us. Do failures happen because humans make mistakes? Or do they happen because we design systems that ultimately fail us as humans? Detailed article on the disaster can be found at <a href="https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/52fa7d_155a03ee1ac745c7a6edd76118a71e16.pdf"> https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/52fa7d_155a03ee1ac745c7a6edd76118a71e16.pdf</a> The National Transportation Safety Board's report can be found at <a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR1502.pdf">http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR1502.pdf</a> The National Transportation Safety Board video of the seconds leading up to the disaster can be found at <a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2015_spaceship2_BMG.aspx">http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2015_spaceship2_BMG.aspx</a>

Wavelength Creative

A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.

A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we&rsquo;d like to think.

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