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Than it sounds like Musk is disagreeing with SpaceX. From the article: > SpaceX says it is serious about flying people safely and is going to great lengths to
by calcifer 8y ago
Than it sounds like Musk is disagreeing with SpaceX. From the article:
> SpaceX says it is serious about flying people safely and is going to great lengths to study every aspect of the vehicle, down to individual valves, so that it will meet and surpass the 1-in-270 chance-of-death metric, said Benji Reed, the director of SpaceX's commercial crew program.
> When Reed was down at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a recent trip, he came across a room on a special tour where the astronauts' families from the shuttle program used to wait ahead of the rocket launch.
> They were stunned to see that a whiteboard with drawings made by the children of the crew lost in the 2003 Columbia disaster was still there, preserved.
> "That really drives it home," Reed said. "This isn't just the people that we're flying — these are all of their families. So we take this extremely seriously, and we understand that our job is to fly people safely and bring them back safely. To do that you have to humanize it. You have to see them as your friends and as your colleagues."
- DennisP 8y agoNot to mention, SpaceX wants to do routine suborbital passenger flights with the same rocket they use for flights to Mars. Safety has to be an extremely high priority for that to happen.
- icc97 8y ago> SpaceX says it is serious about flying people safely > So we take this extremely seriously Musk didn't say they don't take it seriously, he said it's not the highest priority. But also there's a difference between what Space X says and what it does. I don't think we'll fully know the extent of Space X's safety consideration until some astronauts die in take off. NASA are cautious because they've had people die and that lives long in the memory. Space X engineers haven't had to go through the process of finding out which one of them missed the bug that killed people.
- Tepix 8y agoQuite a few SpaceX employees came from NASA.