Comment by LorenPechtel
5 days ago
Actually, not surprising.
The engineering was clear: don't fly. But given political realities had they said that they probably would have lost the contract to build the rockets--and that was a big part of their business.
They made the human choice: chose the option with a chance of success vs the option that was a certain failure.
They had already failed earlier and are just too selfish to accept it. This is not human, its a disgusting subset of the species.
The failure was pretty much forced.
This was a cost plus contract, if NASA didn't want to dig into the blowby issue they weren't really in a position to do so.