The Non-Innovator's Dilemma

On 22 Sep 2003 13:32:07 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(McLean1382) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Rand Simberg writes:

Rand Simberg writes:

What if the OSP itself fails?

Then, worst case, they ground the OSP until they find the problem. The
launch
infrastructure continues to launch other payloads, and remains productive.

But the "manned space program" is shut down once again.

And the OSP may or may not be grounded entirely. If you consider the two
fatal
Soyuz accidents, neither would have grounded a Progress.

Sure, it may not. But it also may. It remains a potential
single-point failure, for a minimal requirement, that's not
justifiable to the taxpayers. At least this one.


Rand, you seem to be making the best the enemy of the good.

No, because IMO, OSP isn't "good." It costs far too much for far too
little value.

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