You are forgetting the caliber of the group of individuals from which NASA astronauts are selected them. Most are military offices, academy graduates in most cases. Many with astonishing careers before the even entered the space program. Most are aviators with combat experience!!!! The point is, NASA is recruiting astronauts off the street. How would it be possible to refine a recruiting process that has ~3500 people, nearly all military professionals, applying for 30 slots a year. There is a very powerful control group at work here. Anyway, it's all so sad. -Rich On 2/7/07, Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
I disagree, Rich. This truly is a grave problem that may show a weakness in another pase of NASA's operations. After two disasters, they're generally trying to be excruciatingly careful with the hardware. But we know nothing about how much care they take with the most crucial software, the human mind. It's not just a foible that NASA can pass off, because human inattention or carelessness, hatred, lust -- any number of distractions -- could cause a space catastrophy that would set us back by decades. It's a good thing something like this hasn't happened in space, which is probably the most stressful possible environment. -- Joe
This is exactly what I was afraid of!!! Now, we don't know anything about the case, at this point. As far as I'm concerned, there is a whole lot of speculation going on. Bottom line, Capt. Nowak obviously had a momentary lapse in judgement as a result of compounding human issues - that's life!!!
NASA should make no public statements at this point!!!
-Rich
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