Spaceflight

Me too. I had thought we were talking about a 1% chance or something like that.

But at the press conference, one of the journalists seemed to be asking about the probability of disaster, and gave 10% as an example. None of the NASA people took the opportunity to say "no that's far too high", or "I'm very confident the uncrewed return of Starliner will be successful", or anything like that.

I'm hoping this doesn't make me a bad person but now that there are no lives at risk I'm kinda hoping it does? I'm so fed up with corporate cost-cutting (even when it affects people's safety!) and companies surviving just based on inertia. I feel if the legal system isn't powerful enough to set a precedent against this sort of corporate practices, maybe the Starliner is. Maybe that's its purpose, and maybe that's how it makes space travel better.