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Hi Bert;
I think NASA's management of the testing was also found wanting.
I read somewhere (from the enquiry?) that the NASA contract managers, didn't demand results from other testing apparatus, prior to accepting the mirror. If they'd followed this wise precaution, (which would not have been too hard an idea to think up, when one dealing with something as major as the Hubble), the ordeal could quite easily have been avoided via early detection.
Lets face it, something as major as the Hubble mirror messup, usually results in more than one party being nailed as 'guilty !'. (That is, of course … during the inevitable aftermath/witch-hunt/lynching party, and with the benefit of hindsight).
Cheers
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