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[–] luchuan@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"There were certainly things we could've done to test it and actually fire it. They would've been very time-consuming and very costly," Mike Hansen, the company's head of navigation systems, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday. "So that was a risk as a company that we acknowledged and took that risk."

What insane copium to post hoc justify not verifying your multimillion dollar machine works before crashing it.

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

the efficiency of the private sector folks,

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Remember when everyone and their cousin mocked Russian Luna-22 probe for failing to brake and crashing into the moon?

I remember.