Limed for the Truth

It’s about time for NASA to once again send a small fleet of astronauts hurtling into low-earth orbit in out-dated, overly-expensive, and apparently demonstrably unsafe technology:

[T]wo top officials at NASA took the unusual step of dissenting from the space agency’s decision to go ahead with the launch without correcting the potentially catastrophic problem of foam falling from the external fuel tank. That was the problem that doomed the Columbia 3 1/2 years ago.

The agency’s safety director and chief engineer wanted to wait and repair the problem.

Psh, those silly safety directors. Always wanting to wait and repair potentially catastrophic problems. Don’t they know that if we address issues that could result in our astronauts exploding into a brilliant fireball somewhere over Texas, then the terrorists have already won? Wait, no, that’s the rhetoric for dealing with matters of national security. If we fix the problems, then the Martians have already won?

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