Consult Personal Advisors

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Question:

The bench tests showed that temperature can adversely affect the resiliency, and therefore the effectiveness, of the O-rings, yet management at Thiokol and NASA shows no interest in planning a design change. What general courses of action are reasonable for an engineer in this sort of situation?

Answer: Consult personal advisors.

Consulting personal advisors is always acceptable except when faced with an emergency, which this is not. Consulting those who know you well and whom you trust is a particularly good idea when you need to do something that is particularly difficult for you, or "pushes your buttons." Is this such a situation?