When thinking about how to write this column following the Michigan disaster, the image that kept popping in my head was Gene Kranz in the movie Apollo 13. After the explosion in space, and the vehicle was badly damaged, he’s in mission control with his team and famously asks them, what is left on the spacecraft that is good?
The challenge this entire week has been how to process what happened seven days ago. What we thought we had, we did not have, and just like in the Apollo 13 disaster, there is a flaw within this team that when exposed at the inopportune moment, it completely blew everything up.