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NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation (arstechnica.com)
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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How many people died because boeing made shitty planes and didn’t train their crew properly?

Is boeing done for?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They get one last chance! If they kill these astronauts this time, we'll be really, really mad like for real!

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 10 points 4 months ago

Don't worry, we have enough tax payer's money to bail them out if anything goes wrong.

/s

[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think messing up on NASA projects will hurt a company way more. Of course aviation is supposed to be safe, but even the 737 Max has flown thousands of hours. Comparing how many people that have flown on them, versus how many that have been hurt/killed, is still a small number, which is still is supposed to be zero of course.

Traversing space, a pinnacle of engineering, is quite another level of danger, and if you insist on your product being functional and safe, and then kills two astronauts, would cause a whole different level of backlash