quoted 5 lines I was just wondering why if I killed a bunch of people and blew three major
>I was just wondering why if I killed a bunch of people and blew three major
>multi million dollar projects in the last 20 years (1 the Chalenger
>disaster, 2 the martian probe disaster, 3 the other disaster they're still
>cleaning up wreckage from) I wouldn't have a job...and Nasa still exists
>sending people to a dangerous vacuum in 70's spacecrafts.
Along with generally agreeing on the other posts replying to this "rant",
I'd like to add that space travel, or any kind of travel for that matter, is
a calculated risk. NASA does not try and delude astronauts into thinking
this is a safe venture and that it's 100% guaranteed they will return safe
and sound. How many manned spaceflights has NASA launched? They've lost
three. Given the number of things that can go catastrophically wrong on
take-of, in space and on re-entry, I think that's not an outlandish number.
I'm not saying that heads shouldn't roll at NASA over this if it was human
error that caused the latest crash and I'm not saying that the shuttle
program as it stands now isn't a joke. I'm just suggesting to look at the
bigger picture.
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