"Danny Dot" wrote in
:

Two commissions have written up that NASA culture is a major cause of
our two shuttle accidents. They site that engineers are afraid to
speak up as part of the problem.

My question is this: Is the culture worse at NASA than other places,
or does NASA have problems that are in other industries, and these
other places get away with it because the problem with their culture
doesn't result in a highly visible catastrophic event. Maybe a
comparison to oil refineries and chemical plants would be useful. In
these industries, catastrophic events can happen if the culture allows
unsafe practices to continue to happen.

I suggest you read up on last year's BP refinery explosion in Texas City -
and the can of worms it opened regarding BP's safety record as a whole.

NASA is far from unique in this regard.

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JRF

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