[phpisthebest]

>> You have the old guard, NASA, millions for fault analysis,

Like with most things, extremes in either direction is bad, I think there is a middle ground between using logitech controllers, and being sooo paralyzing on safety (or rather the bureaucracy of "Safety™") that not only do you never really get off the ground, but come full circle and a $0.50 o ring you failed to test in freezing conditions blows up your entire rocket even after you spent millions having human read your C code...

[relbeek2]

Just a slight correction, the o-ring not being tested in freezing conditions wasn't an oversight that destroyed the challenger; the engineers knew that the o-ring hadn't been tested at that unusually low temperature and even suspected it could fail at those temperatures.

Management at Morton Thiokol and NASA disregarded those concerns because they had already scrubbed the launch several times.

Bureaucracy is forged from the furnace of past adversities.