He was held up as an example in my engineering classes back in the day.
And he was. If I remember right, the professional consequences for him were rather harsh for a bit.
Stand for what is right, even if it costs you
That’s why people don;t stand for what;s right..Because of the cost..Remember the guys at Benghazi..The one that saved everyone else..No one stood up for him later,because the cost was too high..Losing their jobs and health bennies...
And had he NOT taken that stand, Morton-Thiokol and NASA would have all pointed the finger at him and agreed, “He was the leader of the booster team and he approved it”.