Re: Lose one bloody capsule in 50 years
I love the easy way people chuck around statements like:
At first sight this seems to be just the latest quality control problem that has occurred in the recent past.
As if a series of quality control problems is just a minor thing.
The two things that get astronauts killed are rushing to meet deadlines and complacency.
Apollo 1 and the two fatal Soyuz accidents were caused by ignoring problems in the rush to meet deadlines. The 2 Shuttle crashes were caused by complacently assuming that they'd carry on getting away with problems that hadn't caused accidents before.
There is no just when talking about regular quality control problems. And that's what Roscosmos have been getting away with for several years now. Mostly they've been in the unmanned side of things, so it might be that there's no serious problem - and there might be a simple cause for this malfunction - but it's not exactly reassuring.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
