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This strikes me as an example of everything in the system working. -GAO analyzes SpaceX processes and discovers a shortcoming -Media reports on this to create
by josho 10y ago
This strikes me as an example of everything in the system working.
-GAO analyzes SpaceX processes and discovers a shortcoming
-Media reports on this to create public awareness
-SpaceX is compelled to respond and fix the problem (something their engineers were probably already aware of anyway)
-Space Travel continues to move safely forward
This is quite refreshing from other government initiatives at the moment.
- rtkwe 10y agoReally step 2 isn't necessary at all beyond transparency and a voracious curiosity about SpaceX from some circles. NASA would simply not qualify SpaceXs' rockets for manned flight without these fixes.
- throwanem 10y ago> step 2 isn't necessary at all Isn't it? One wonders what would've followed from a decision on the part of Thiokol's engineers to take to the media their concerns about SRB segment seal reliability. Absent such external pressure, I see no a priori reason to assume NASA management won't make the same errors it did in 1986 and 2003.
- rtkwe 10y agoWith each of those NASA has changed and put more safeguards in place in their process. And (as I recall because the article is refusing to open for me now even through google in incognito) NASA was already requiring changes before the GAO report was coming out. So it seems like this was already behind handled properly by being redesigned before human certification.