[cripplecreek]

Too bad we can’t re-instill the right stuff from the days of Apollo 13 into NASA of today.

[editor-surveyor]

"Too bad we can’t re-instill the right stuff from the days of Apollo 13 into NASA of today."

Too bad we can’t re-instill the right stuff from the days of Apollo 13 into America of today.

[Yo-Yo]

Too bad we can’t re-instill the right stuff from the days of Apollo 13 into NASA of today.

Go read what caused the explosion on board Apollo 13. Go read about the loss of three heroes on the pad in Apollo 1. Neither of those mistakes were 'The Right Stuff.'

NASA made grave mistakes then, and they make them now. Whenever you have to make literally millions of decisions, one or two will be wrong. Unfortunately, when that one decision is wrong, people often die. That is the nature of Space Flight.

[Cincinatus]

Too bad we can’t re-instill the right stuff from the days of Apollo 13 into NASA of today.

It must have escaped your notice that Apollo 13 was a failure, caused by someone dropping the oxygen tank such that it could not then be drained later during tests. Their solution? Turn the heat on and boil off the liquid oxygen. Only problem was that this burned the electrical insulation, creating a time-bomb in the Service Module. The crew got back alive, but barely.

The "Right Stuff"? No, just human error -- sometimes found and corrected, sometimes not. In the 1950's -- the era of "The Right Stuff" -- test pilots died at a rate of about one a week. We've had 14 fatalities on the Shuttle since it started flying almost 28 years ago.

[dfwgator]

Too bad we can’t re-instill the right stuff from the days of Apollo 13 into NASA of today.

Remember Apollo 1? Things happen.