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Very true, but am I, sitting up in space, in a position to have enough information to act on either of these concerns? I can imagine a situation where I have a
by alwa 2y ago
Very true, but am I, sitting up in space, in a position to have enough information to act on either of these concerns?
I can imagine a situation where I have a gut instinct that “this thing is just squirrelly, I don’t trust it.” But if I don’t have that instinctive reaction, how am I to know which return option is more reliable?
They successfully docked despite the anomalies, and it doesn’t seem to have led them to say “like hell I’m flying that deathtrap back.”
At some level aren’t everyone’s incentives, including Boeing’s, aligned around getting everyone home alive?
Sure Boeing’s risk appetite may look different, but wouldn’t even Boeing rate the loss of the return capsule as a catastrophic outcome? Wouldn’t I, as an astronaut, have priced Boeing’s incentives in to my decision not to put my foot down? And don’t I have to trust the ground team with my life before I let them strap me onto a space rocket in the first place?