Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety

Uttini writes "NASA skipped some shuttle safety improvements as it tried to meet unrealistic launch dates for the first flight since the Columbia tragedy, some members of an oversight panel said in a scathing critique. Poor leadership also made shuttle Discovery's return to space more complicated, expensive and prolonged than it needed to be."

Comments

Teleporter?

[Anonymous Coward]

All these spacecraft seem like such an awkward and impractical way of transporting things through space. Wouldn't it be much easier to develop teleporter technology like you see in the science fiction shows and just send objects and astronauts to other planets that way?

You can get all sorts of things over the wireless internet these days, music, movies, all kinds of software. Since dna is just information too, it seems to me that it shouldn't be too hard to figure out how to broadcast people and things from one place to another. NASA should get to work on this instead of silly space shuttles.

Re:Teleporter?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Something tells me there was a carrier loss when they transmitted your DNA...

Anything with tits or wheels

[HermanAB]

sooner or later gives you shit... ;-)

My dream job...

[Ingolfke]

is to sit on a panel and bitch and complain and nitpick and attack people who actually do work.

In soviet russia.

[miffo.swe]

It must be pretty irritating for NASA to watch the reds sending their old heap of scrap up into space without a glitch since 1971. The Souyz is like an old truck while the shuttle is like a Ferrari, great tech but very delicate and error prone.