Chris L Peterson wrote:


Not in least because manned spaceflight is NASA, and unmanned spaceflight is
(mostly) JPL. And JPL is a very different thing (although NASA would like to
pretend otherwise).

It would be more accurate to say NASA is Morton Thiokol. Morton Thiokol
engineers warned their management to tell NASA not to fly Challanger in
1986. Both their managment and the NASA bosses told these honest
engineers to cool it if they valued their careers. We have a Teacher to
Launch into Space and all that. We can't dissapoint Ronnie and Congress
now, can we? Both the management of Morton Thiokol and the management at
NASA should be indicted or sued for homocidal negligence.

Bob Kolker