Accidents Related Failures of Imagination
Failure of imagination has also been invoked in regards to the Apollo 1 fire in 1967 when astronaut Frank Borman, speaking at the Apollo 1 investigation hearings (dramatized in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon in 1998.) and design flaws in the RMS Titanic.
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