News NASA Nearly Crashed the Vomit Comet on a Reckless Trip to Greenland

[Urwumpe]

Fair points, but I was mainly talking about the DoD's "space program". NASA always has to justify its existence and beg for every probe they launch. The DoD by comparison gets plenty of cash to launch its military stuff. Because "national security".

Yes, but that is political - The military-industrial complex. The real one, not the conspiracy. A military weapon system rarely has to prove that it is worth it, if it is just politically backed. See the constant struggle of the A-10 crowd, which has the most efficient plane of the USAF. But which only few politicians really admit.

 

[garyw]

Deeply worrying. NASA have still not learnt the lessons of Challenger or Columbia.

 

[Urwumpe]

Deeply worrying. NASA have still not learnt the lessons of Challenger or Columbia.

Yes. Which will become very exciting when manned flights resume.