Out local Warmists are fond of quoting data from NASA people, but the staff at the Mansion have found a good way to dislocate them. They remind them that NASA’s shoddy engineering got the crew of Apollo 1 roasted to death in a fire during a ground test. And because none of the geniuses at NASA realized that the rubber O-rings in solid-fuel boosters would shrink to a brittle, solid and useless state when exposed to sub-zero temperatures on a launch pad, seven more astronauts were killed.
And then there’s the Mars mission that went tits up and missed the planet completely because some of the crew were working in the US equivalent of Imperial units and the rest were using the metric system. Luckily, no one died that time.
Sadly, NASA is a government organization which is prone to the sort of bureaucratic stupidity that was letting patients die of neglect at Stafford hospital when Andy Burnham, a bloke who thinks he’s fit to be Manchester’s mayor, was running the NHS. Yes, the agency has had some spectacular triumphs. But you never quite know if you’re going to get Good NASA or Bad NASA.
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