In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle…

- Jerome F. Lederer

Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and…

- Jerome F. Lederer

Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an a…

- Jerome F. Lederer

Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. …

- Jerome F. Lederer

Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.

- Jerome F. Lederer

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

- Jerome F. Lederer