A different story [0] where an oil tanker rescued a NASA cargo ship at sea. After the rescue, years long legal battle where the company tried to collect $5 mill

A different story [0] where an oil tanker rescued a NASA cargo ship at sea. After the rescue, years long legal battle where the company tried to collect $5 million. As I recall, NASA lacked the authority to cut that size of check and the overseeing body fought to deny payment. Skip faced a difficult decision. A fully loaded, 688-foot oil tanker is hardly anyone's first choice of a rescue vessel. It is as maneuverable as a school bus on ice. And the Cherry Valley was carrying ten million gallons of heavy fuel oil. A rescue attempt would put them in dangerously shallow water. One wrong move, and they would have an ecological disaster on the order of the Exxon Valdez. … At the center of it all, an impossible question: How do you put a price tag on doing the right thing? [0] https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1197956698/planet-money-draft-01-26-2024 https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1197956698/planet-money-draft...