[Alberta's Child]

A space shuttle disaster like that became inevitable once NASA began treating shuttle missions as PR stunts rather than a serious space program.

When the demographic composition of the crew became more important than the mission itself, it was only a matter of time before this sort of thing happened.

[Blueflag]

The Shuttle that disintegrated during re-entry was like that. IIRC the family of one of the crew members of color even sued over it.

OMG. Really?

[missthethunder]

“A space shuttle disaster like that became inevitable once NASA began treating shuttle missions as PR stunts rather than a serious space program.
When the demographic composition of the crew became more important than the mission itself, it was only a matter of time before this sort of thing happened”

Yep
When opinion becomes more important than facts,
things are gonna fall apart and break.

[FreedomPoster]

I’m pretty sure the ratio of managers:engineers/scientists at NASA had exceeded 1:1 by this time. Another aspect of the failure.

[cowboyusa]

What a dumb , stupid comment. It was NASA’s fault. It never should have been launched that day. You win the award for dumbest comment of the year.