4 ms·
It's not about the ability to find astronauts to accept the risk. It's about the blow to national prestige and to NASA when such a disaster happens. The publi
by mturmon 16y ago
It's not about the ability to find astronauts to accept the risk.
It's about the blow to national prestige and to NASA when such a disaster happens. The public will not abide a spacecraft with the flag on it, crashing.
- damoncali 16y agoThat is absolutely true. The public cannot handle the truth, to paraphrase a fictitious Marine. But the proper way to go about this is not to pretend that it is safe, which causes people to wonder what's wrong with NASA, but rather to embrace the risk, so that people understand what is going on.