* Identify and explain the modes of political influences in the U.S. space shuttle Challenger case study. * Describe the impact of interorganizational politics between NASA and Thiokol. * Describe the impact to the ecosystem that NASA was operating in at the time of the U.S. space shuttle Challenger disaster. * Explain how managers could have prevented the failure of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. * Make recommendations that could have mitigated the outcome that would make sense in the context of the actual decision.