Thursday, November 29, 2012

What happens when safety isn't the number one priority...


Meet Vladamir Komarov. He was the first cosmonaut to go into outer space multiple times. You can read a much better summary than what I could write by Robert Krulwich at:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." - Feynman in his Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report on the Challenger Accident.

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