Re: SpaceX Management is to blame, not a broken strut.
"The self admitted complacency among employees is strictly a SpaceX management issue"
You may have a point about complacency, but you have to remember that even NASA didn't get the "tough and competent" attitude that they achieved during the latter half of the Apollo programme until after the deaths of Grissom, White and Chaffee in the Apollo 1 fire, with the subsequent and very public arse-chewings of senior NASA management in front of a US Senate committee. As Flight Director Gene Kranz said at the time, "We were too 'gung-ho' about the schedule and we blocked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work."
SpaceX has just had their first proper 'rocket-science' life lesson handed to them on a plate, but this time no-one died, expensive kit was lost, but kit is replaceable. Whether they learn the lesson or not is up to them, but if I were to choose words to describe Elon Musk, 'complacent' certainly wouldn't be one of them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
