Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Discovery launches!

Thank goodness Discovery lauched safely. Getting the astronauts home safely remains the big challenge.

It's quite amazing there haven't been more tragedies in NASA's history - especially with the shuttle. They basically strap the orbiter to a bomb and use two missiles to rev them up to ludicrous speed.

It's even more amazing that the safety record is what it is, given the pervasive carelessness among NASA bureaucrats and administrators and the extent to which they ignore the engineers. Even on this flight the engineers implored the managers to give them more time to study and fix the foam problem, but the managers overruled the engineers. Twice this very mentality led to the deaths of seven astronauts. Let's hope these brave explorers make it home alive in spite of the bureaucratic idiocy.

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