From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Someone Forgot to Check The Boxes At 12:00am
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 20:03:17 -0600
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:07:58 +0000, Mitchell Holman says...
> Efficient park rangers and VA nurses
> get laid off for "poor performance" but
Who said anyone got "laid off" OR "poor performance", and WHY did you put "poor
performance" in "air quotes"?
> Elon's staff launches failure after failure
> and no mass layoffs there, no sirree.
So... let's close down NASA.
How "failure after failures" have there been at SpaceX?
When they get up to this many, then... MAYBE...
NASA:
1. 15 November 1967 Control failure X-15 Flight 3-65-97
2. 28 January 1986 Launch booster failure, vehicle disintegration during
launch - Space Shuttle Challenger disaster STS-51-L
3. 1 February 2003 Vehicle disintegration on re-entry - Space Shuttle
Columbia disaster STS-107
4. Training jet crash 31 October 1964 (Gemini)
5. Training jet crash 28 February 1966 Gemini 9
6. Fire during spacecraft test 27 January 1967 Apollo 1 United States
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
7. Training jet crash 5 October 1967 (Apollo)
8. Training jet crash 8 December 1967 (Manned Orbiting Laboratory)
9. Spaceplane crash during test flight 31 October 2014 VSS Enterprise PF04
10. Landing capsule sank in water 21 July 1961 Mercury-Redstone 4
11. Engine shutdown at launch 12 December 1965 Gemini 6A
12. Equipment failure 17 March 1966 Gemini 8
13. Struck twice by lightning during launch 14 November 1969 Apollo 12
14. Premature engine shutdown 11 April 1970 Apollo 13
15. Equipment failure 13 April 1970 Apollo 13
16. One of three main parachutes failed 7 August 1971 Apollo 15
17. SRB ignition shock wave overpressure reached design limits of orbiter
structure 12 April 1981 STS-1: The overpressure bent four struts that
supported two RCS fuel tanks in the nose of Columbia and the orbiter's
locked body flap was pushed up and down 6 in (15 cm) by the shock wave.
18. Leaked hydrazine fuel fire and explosion 8 December 1983 STS-9
19. Space Shuttle in-flight engine failure 29 July 1985 STS-51-F
20. Thermal tile damage 6 December 1988 STS-27
21. Explosive release device punctured cargo bay bulkhead 12 September 1993
STS-51
22. Main engine electrical short and hydrogen leak 23 July 1999 STS-93
23. Toxic ammonia leak during EVA 10 February 2001 ISS/STS-98
24. 14 April 1964 Cape Canaveral, US 3 Delta rocket 25. Eleven workers were
in the room when the 205 kg (452 lb) of solid fuel in the third stage
ignited.
Sidney Dagle, 29; Lot D. Gabel, 51, and John Fassett, 30, were severely
burned and later died of their injuries. Eight others were injured, but
survived. The ignition was caused by a spark of static electricity.
25. 7 September 1990 Edwards AFB, CA United States 1 Titan IV: A Titan IV
launch vehicle solid rocket booster was being hoisted by a crane into a
rocket test stand at Edwards AFB, California. The bottom section of the
booster broke free, hit the ground and ignited. One person, Alan M.
Quimby, 27, a civilian employee of Wyle Laboratories, was killed and
nine others were injured in the accident.
26. 26 July 2007 Mojave Spaceport, California 3 engine test for
SpaceShipTwo: Explosion during a test of rocket
systems by Scaledcomposites during a nitrous oxide injector test
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