Later this month NASA’s space shuttle program is scheduled to resume with the launch of shuttle Discovery, more than two years after shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry, taking the lives of all seven crew members and exposing the space agency’s ignored and neglected safety culture, according to investigators.
As the launch date nears stories are popping all over the Internet quoting ex-astronauts and unnamed employees that nothing has really changed. Deadline pressure still prevails over safety concerns. Safety people are bullied into silence.