If I were on the space shuttle Discovery right now I would be plenty pissed.
It's bad enough that no one at NASA did anything about the problems that brought down the last shuttle, but now the astronauts have to get dressed in space suits every day (which in and of itself must be a huge pain in the ass) and go out and try to fix the latest broken piece of their craft.
Also, as a taxpayer I'm more than a little annoyed that NASA spends billions of dollars to fabricate them out of old venetian blinds and excess McDonald's styrofoam burger containers.
What is up with that?
No wonder the damn things fall apart! Even Magyver couldn't make a spaceship out of cardboard and foam rubber.
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I think there was always some degee of risk, always a chance things would go wrong. The last time it was a disaster, this time a fender bender - but all eyes are glued to see what happens to that which has seemingly not been glued enough. Thus the fender bender demands more attention than it's worth. My vote would be to continue the program as planned until we're ready for the next step. Of course that won't happen because paranoia runs deep and accountability is disbursed in a skewed fashion - not recognizing that there will always be risk and a certain amount is acceptable.
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