"spaceflight is risky business" explains the tweet. i mean, yes, space is a hostile environment, but so is nasa.
i think about how the apollo 1 astronauts sent a picture to their boss' boss, of them praying towards the capsule, a few months before they burned to death in a test.
during the investigation, one senator said NASA had an "evasiveness, ... lack of candor, ... patronizing attitude toward Congress ... refusal to respond fully and forthrightly to legitimate Congressional inquiries"
i also think about the challenger disaster. the one where the rocket contractor went "don't fly" and nasa went "are you suuuuuuuuuuure?" and the contractor went "shrug."
i think about how the investigation only found out the truth because someone leaked the reports to the commission—who then protected their sources by inviting feynman over for dinner, and theatrically working on their car and talking about o-rings, so he'd have an excuse to start looking.
"The commission concluded that the safety culture and management structure at NASA were insufficient to properly report, analyze, and prevent flight issues."
or columbia, where the the management cancelled attempts to look for debris, because it would ruin the schedule.
"the board determined that NASA lacked the appropriate communication and integration channels to allow problems to be discussed and effectively routed and addressed."
the thing that gets me, apart from nasa killing astronauts every twenty years, is that so many people see it as an acceptable cost of progress. if anything, they see it proving the difficulty and the merit of spaceflight.
i'll give you two guesses for how the people who make "self driving cars" think
