Aha! Despite all the bashing of me for DARING to question the sacred Mission Control, more and more evidence emerges of the sheer laziness and negligence of the NASA brass. Some people treat MC as the engineering Vatican, which can never be questioned. Nonsense. If it is truly found that negligence can be established then someone should do prison time for this, as should have the brass who KNEW about the Morton Thiakol warning about the Challenger "O" rings, and did nothing out of sheer arrogance.
Good luck finding the next generation of people willing to put everyting on the line and take risks for this country. We need to be deserving of them.
In all of this, I hope that those who carry the actual weight of making these decisions can find peace. These decisions where put before them, not us.
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