Investigator worries NASA won't change

Mercury News ^ | 8/1/03 | Marcia Dunn - AP

[NormsRevenge]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Nobel Prize-winning member of the board investigating the space shuttle Columbia disaster says he fears NASA may be doomed to suffer more tragedies unless it changes the culture that has led to flawed decision-making.

The "same faulty reasoning" that led to the 1986 Challenger accident also led to Columbia, said Douglas Osheroff, one of the 13 board members wrapping up the report on the Columbia accident.

[Paleo Conservative]

I'm not worried. I know it won't change.

[RightWhale]

Beat you by a nose.

[demlosers]

"...I would say that we will have been whistling in the wind," Osheroff told The Associated Press

You mean 'pissing' in the wind. Yeah NASA does that.

[NormsRevenge]

Sacre Bleu,,,Monsieur!!! ;-P LOL

[RightWhale]

The investigation will now center on which article has the real headline as written by Marcia Dunn, if either.

[dasboot]

NASA's troubles sound like the predictable result of the educational culture in 80% of the colleges from which 'talent' is drawn:

Cheating overlooked, encouraged, twistedly respected;

Never accept blame or responsibility;

Low expectations, and half-efforts to meet them are acceptable.....and rewarded. And I reckon this all flows from the primary and secondary "self esteem" culture. The kids and parents, who pay the freight, are demanding the paradigm. The customer is always right.

1956- "We will bury you."

2003- (sound of shoveling)

[NormsRevenge]

Under advice of legal counsel, I will not issue a comment at this time,, but I may next wednesday night on the tonight show ;-)

[Erik Latranyi]

Well, NASA has managed to ignore engineer warnings that now led to the destruction of two (2) shuttles.

Perhaps three is the charm.