Were you alive when the Shuttle was canceled? That was a final result of the 2003 Columbia disaster. The system was NOT safe to travel on. NASA had let a commonplace flight anomaly continue until it killed a crew on re-entry. Yeah, it could bring back something from outer space, but apparently not anything alive. GW Bush initiated the retirement process before he left office. The last Shuttle flight was in 2011. Obama executed the retirement. (And why not? He was no fan of U.S. military advantage.)
The Outer Space treaty bans the orbital placement of weapons of mass destruction. Anything else is not stipulated. We spent a lot of time in the 1980s designing space-based interceptor systems for anti-ballistic-missile defense (and satellite defense). Some of that is now in bad odor due to debris generation problems.
You just seem to show up everywhere. Space travel is dangerous, period. I was alive through both shuttle disasters (the first of which you seem to have forgotton?). And while painful, life goes on. How many men did Columbus lose in 1492? Explorers sign up for the dangerous jobs. I'm connecting dots - look into the Q post and give it some thought - just maybe you'll "get it" too
I haven't forgotten the Challenger disaster. I still have a copy of "Prescription for Disaster" by Trento on my bookshelf. You weren't reading closely. It was the Columbia disaster that prompted the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, because NASA finally awakened to an inherent and fatal design flaw.
Air travel in general is maybe not dangerous, in your view? We shouldn't be upset at 346 passengers and crew killed by 737 MAX crashes because of malicious software? Just suck up the dangerous jobs?
I've actually worked in this business. What insight are you suggesting that I "get"? I would like to know.
If a car has automatic steering that fights the driver for control and crashes into bridge abutments at full speed, why not? Those 346 deaths were entirely preventable by responsible design decisions. There was no study performed by Boeing that uncovered the inherent fatal behavior. How do I know? I was on the program progress review board where these decisions were made, and the MCAS was waved away as a trivial software edit. So, I put you with the complacent ones.
The design requirement on airliners is that the statistical probability of a fatal event on any given flight should be no greater than on in ten million. The 737 MAX was a flunk.
Were you alive when the Shuttle was canceled? That was a final result of the 2003 Columbia disaster. The system was NOT safe to travel on. NASA had let a commonplace flight anomaly continue until it killed a crew on re-entry. Yeah, it could bring back something from outer space, but apparently not anything alive. GW Bush initiated the retirement process before he left office. The last Shuttle flight was in 2011. Obama executed the retirement. (And why not? He was no fan of U.S. military advantage.)
The Outer Space treaty bans the orbital placement of weapons of mass destruction. Anything else is not stipulated. We spent a lot of time in the 1980s designing space-based interceptor systems for anti-ballistic-missile defense (and satellite defense). Some of that is now in bad odor due to debris generation problems.
You just seem to show up everywhere. Space travel is dangerous, period. I was alive through both shuttle disasters (the first of which you seem to have forgotton?). And while painful, life goes on. How many men did Columbus lose in 1492? Explorers sign up for the dangerous jobs. I'm connecting dots - look into the Q post and give it some thought - just maybe you'll "get it" too
I haven't forgotten the Challenger disaster. I still have a copy of "Prescription for Disaster" by Trento on my bookshelf. You weren't reading closely. It was the Columbia disaster that prompted the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, because NASA finally awakened to an inherent and fatal design flaw.
Air travel in general is maybe not dangerous, in your view? We shouldn't be upset at 346 passengers and crew killed by 737 MAX crashes because of malicious software? Just suck up the dangerous jobs?
I've actually worked in this business. What insight are you suggesting that I "get"? I would like to know.
Are you saying we should decommission and retire all airplanes because it's not 100% safe ? Now do cars.
If a car has automatic steering that fights the driver for control and crashes into bridge abutments at full speed, why not? Those 346 deaths were entirely preventable by responsible design decisions. There was no study performed by Boeing that uncovered the inherent fatal behavior. How do I know? I was on the program progress review board where these decisions were made, and the MCAS was waved away as a trivial software edit. So, I put you with the complacent ones.
The design requirement on airliners is that the statistical probability of a fatal event on any given flight should be no greater than on in ten million. The 737 MAX was a flunk.