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Given that the Columbia disaster occurred in the middle of those 32 years, I'm not sure that follows....
by ChickeNES 8y ago
Given that the Columbia disaster occurred in the middle of those 32 years, I'm not sure that follows....
- ufmace 8y agoSomewhat true, I'd say that risk-averse is more appropriate than safety-obsessed. For such organizations, being "safety-obsessed" usually means a massive amount of bureaucracy around certain known risks, but such organizations don't tend to be consistently good at finding and addressing unknown risks.
- vertexFarm 8y agoYou can be safety-obsessed and still have accidents when you're doing something as risky as space travel I think.