The Shuttle that damn near blew up...

[sirhrmechanic]

STS-93 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So this is probably the closest NASA came to losing a shuttle.... without losing a shuttle.

Once again corner cutting and trying to get out cheap.

They got damned lucky!

This just crossed my radar screen today... and I had no idea. Long gone by then. But... damn. When will these retards learn that stepping over dollars to pick up nickels is fucking retarded?

Cheers!

Sirhr

 

[Ronws]

 

[E. Bryant]

A good example of why redundancy and a bit of extra performance margin are useful measures in safety- and mission-critical systems, even when the analysis suggests that the odds of failure are "acceptably low".

 

[supercorndogs]

STS-93 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So this is probably the closest NASA came to losing a shuttle.... without losing a shuttle.

Once again corner cutting and trying to get out cheap.

They got damned lucky!

This just crossed my radar screen today... and I had no idea. Long gone by then. But... damn. When will these retards learn that stepping over dollars to pick up nickels is fucking retarded?

Cheers!

Sirhr

I think they are usually accounting for nickles while someone is stuffing the dollars in their pocket.

 

[E. Bryant]

I think they are usually accounting for nickles while someone is stuffing the dollars in their pocket.

Can't afford to properly engineer a product for the grunts when lobbyists, congressmen, and shareholders all need to get their fair share.