Comment by KennyBlanken

> Stuff happens.

> There is the famous case of dropping the NOAA N-Prime weather satellite on the ground. They were trying to turn it from vertical to horizontal and they forgot to bolt it to the adapter. Worse: multiple people signed the paperwork attesting that they verified that it was bolted down correctly.

That wasn't a case of "stuff happens." It was a case of systemic issues with defense contractor employees not doing the work they were supposed to be, cutting corners, and "not giving a shit because if it breaks the government will just order another one from us."

It was basically fraud/grift/incompetence, not "stuff happens."

> If I remember it right because the man who usually assembled that part had to leave during assembly because his wife was giving birth. Someone put it together but appearantely not correctly.

And why was the process so poorly documented only one guy could do it right?

Why didn't someone check the assembly?

Answer: defense contractor laziness and incompetence.