[theFIRMbss]

>Do you really believe that these people willingly and knowlingly ignored something that allowed this to happen?

Have you ever read
Feynman's account of his work
after Challenger?

Lots of people knew
the O-ring was a killer.
Knew that a cold launch

could wreck the shuttle.
Yet somehow it was given
a go for liftoff.

(And it seems NASA
allowed the Hubble mirror
to be lifted flawed.

And science writers
have alleged that NASA knew
the last Mars project

had some fatal flaw
but allowed it to attempt
landing anyway.)

Elements within
NASA seem to have acquired
"bureaucrat's blindness"

that let's them distance
themselves from horrible things.
It's painful to think

it could have happened
again. But it has happened
before, more than once.

[Calvin Locke]

You forgot that Mars Mission, or I should say, one of the Mars Missions, that failed because one or more of the
non-Feynmans allowed both English and Metric systems in the design and planning of the mission?

And I thought NASA may have had a ray of hope of redemption with the departure of Dan Golden.