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A lot of things happened. Apollo 1 disaster, end of space race, space shuttle not hitting enough launch volume and having unclear requirements, Challenger and C
by terafo 4y ago
A lot of things happened. Apollo 1 disaster, end of space race, space shuttle not hitting enough launch volume and having unclear requirements, Challenger and Columbia incidents which skyrocketed shuttle between-flight maintenance, continued failure of NLS>Constellation>SLS.
- bumby 4y agoThis seems correct. Things move fast until something bad happens; then layers and layers of oversight are added to avoid bad things happening again. Years go by without bad things happening and people begin to wonder why we need so much oversight so they begin to peel them back. Rinse and repeat. In that context, a major mishap is a very big risk to SpaceX because it can erode their efficiency. One of the advantages of the CCP approach is that there is much less oversight, so things can move quicker. I'm not so sure NASA will be okay with that if they lose an astronaut.
- aidenn0 4y agoIf manned space travel becomes as routine as Musk seems to desire, we're going to lose some astronauts.