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Depends. Do you want to rule out NASA ever being allowed to evolve its requirements based on what it's learned from past failures? Or out of a sense of fairness
by ubernostrum 8y ago
Depends. Do you want to rule out NASA ever being allowed to evolve its requirements based on what it's learned from past failures? Or out of a sense of fairness, do you demand that what we knew about safety at the start of the 1960s is all we're ever officially allowed to know?
- walrus01 8y agoNeither, I do think they should have extensive safety qualifications for new craft, but the process should be faster. I just find it interesting that the us agencies responsible for road+highway safety and small aircraft safety will "accept" up to tens of thousands of fatalities a year, mostly due to operator error... While something like the dragon that has the low risk of killing 4 or 5 people (who have willingly signed up for the risk), takes such a long time to qualify.