[pixl97]

This is kind of an odd reply as what is going on now is exactly what one would expect from a culture that cannot take risks at all.

1. Something blows up.

2. It gets pasted all over the news.

3. People wonder why we give NASA money to blow stuff up

4. Congress people with room temperature IQs grill NASA admin for months.

5. NASA becomes risk adverse.

6. Today.

[ACCount37]

NASA had real safety issues in the past - Space Shuttle is a testament to that. But if this is the fix, they clearly overcorrected.

There's some sort of happy middle ground between flying a ship that has a very significant chance of a catastrophic failure killing all crew and can't even fly unmanned, and almost not letting Ingenuity fly because the chance of failure was deemed too great. NASA didn't find it.