The author is an idiot. That’s why they test things.
Spaceflight is hard.
A slight improvement over C Stoff + T Stoff bi-propellant...
...but when the Crewed Dragon's sibling - the Cargo Dragon - attaches to the hyper-expensive and manned ISS on a regular basis...
...then NASA and SpaceX have a responsibility to better communicate the state of the investigation.
Prudence also requires that Cargo Dragon flights get delayed until it can be shown that the failure happened in a portion of the Crewed Dragon that does not share design or components with it.
(But what the hell do I know, I haven't killed 17 astronauts in preventable accidents.)
SpaceX didn’t kill Gus Grissom & Co. Neither did NASA. Accidents happens. Expensive equipment is destroyed and people die. This business in dangerous. But SpaceX has made incredible, inspiring breakthroughs that is resurrecting the American space program. Would the author prefer we depend 100% on Russia, as Obama did?
Not sure that Space X is a fiasco. Unlike NASA, they haven’t burned men alive in a pure O2 environment.
Mistakes happen., SpaceX is a private company. They don’t have to disclose mistakes to anyone except the contacted company.
People should lighten up.
*ping*