Pluto

Hi! I like space & NASA & all that stuff and I yap about it :)

[cluelessrebel1988]

Probably the most harrowing thing in Challenger: The Final Flight is the revelation in the epilogue title cards that, after everything that came out about NASA and their failure to give the engineers time to fix a problem that they totally fucking knew about, the Columbia disaster in 2003 was caused by a problem that NASA had been warned about but didn't take steps to fix because they were still trying to get launches done on a schedule.

[pluto-the-not-planet]

It’s actually sickening.

[spankerella]

I think we all should.

[pluto-the-not-planet]

The Apollo 1 tragedy isn’t talked about nearly as much as it should be. I didn’t know that Apollo 1 was even a crewed mission until I started actually researching NASA space exploration, and I think that’s a problem. And it’s not like I wasn’t in circles of people who were interested in space, cuz I was! The men of the Apollo 1 mission are often forgotten or overlooked, but I think that should change. (Like most NASA missions that end in death) This tragedy could have been prevented, and was the result of poor safety procedures and I don’t think we should just look past it, I think we should have more conversations about the Apollo 1 mission.