Erik Nygren 

For those of us who work in systems safety, this seems... bad:

https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm

TL;DR: the heat shield has major issues during re-entry but the program is going ahead anyways because there's no way to fix given the program constraints. I am curious what the rationale for continuing anyways from NASA's angle, but this seems like the sort of thing where going ahead leads to accidents.

#nasa #safety

Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly (Idle Words)

Mar 31 at 8:33pmWeb
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 31

@nygren

So clearly NASA's culture has not changed (for the better) since Challenger in '86.

MT told em the risk of cold o-rings, they ignored it. And they didn't tell the CREW about the risk. (straight from the Rogers commission report).

An Apollo/Gemeni/Mercury astronaut - and these were the OG steely missile men, their courage cannot be refuted - would never have strapped into a thing with risks like that.

Show threadJimmyMar 31
@nygren The risks of modern management structures, yes? Because things are just SO MUCH BETTER now than they were in the fifties and sixties, yes?