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by diffuse_l 457 days ago
It was reaveled how dangerous it was around 1986, after the Challenger disater. There were too many incentives to ignore it. Commercial crew would probably not come to be (at least not in its current form) if SpaceX wasn't around to prove that it's possible
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It took another accident before anyone took the danger seriously enough to ground the Shuttle.