"The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster" or the 25th mission of NASA's shuttle program on January 28,1986, resulted on explosion just 73 seconds after the shuttle took off which caused the death of 7 crew members, is considered a tragedy disaster rather than a mere accident because an accident could be avoided, as former Morton Thiokol seal expert Roger Boisjoly declared " We could have stopped it .We had initially stopped it. And then the decision was made to go forward anyways"

(Sources " A major malfunction" the story behind the Space Shuttle challenger disaster. Volume 1, the research case by Mark Maier, Ph. D. The state university of NY at Binghamton)

Studying this case is a good example of Organizational Behaviour because we can see how the organizational culture at NASA contributed to the disaster, many unethical events that took place, aggressive and bureaucratic leadership that caused the disaster.

The disaster of the...