Murphy's Law Rules NASA

3x37 writes "James Oberg, former long-time NASA operations employee, now journalist, wrote an MSNBC article about the reality of Murphy's Law at NASA. Interesting that the incident that sparked Murphy's Law over 50 years ago had a nearly identical cause as the Genesis probe failure. The conclusion: Human error is an inevitable input to any complex endeavor. Either you manage and design around it or fail. NASA management still often chooses the latter."

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Re:interesting but it's not really true

[Moby Cock]

Its an oversimplification to say that older technology was used without errors. In fact, its just downright incorrect. Appolo 1 and Appolo 13 both suffered from catastophic failures. Furthermore, the next generation of space vehicles, the shuttle, has had two very significat disasters and reams of other failures.