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Waterluviantoday at 12:47 AM1 replyview on HN

Space flight safety is a function of culture and I don’t have any confidence that the culture has improved.


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gerdesjtoday at 1:18 AM

I think we are a long way along from digging out Dr Feynman to look into why a shuttle exploded.

Unless you happen to have some deep links into NASA, in which case please elucidate us all, then why not celebrate a happy and safe return from a sodding dangerous mission that involved things like >25,000 mph relative velocity and some remarkable navigation.

When you depart earth (close quarters gravity, air resistance, things in the way), everything moves really fast, really fast and any acceleration becomes an issue really ... fast!

The moon moves, the earth moves: both famously in some sort of weird dance around each other and both orbit around the sun. Obviously the moon affects the earth way less than vice versa but it still complicates things.

I think that NASA did a remarkable job of making Artemis II look almost routine and I don't think that was down to behaving as they did in the past.

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