Category Archives: Space Safety

Certification and Rules-based Technology Regulations: Part of Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Jonathan Goff

Brian Wang over on Next Big Future brought up a point I’ve been thinking about for a while. In an article about why Canada is likely to beat the US to having molten salt nuclear reactors (in spite of the … Continue reading →

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Crew Safety Perspective

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Jonathan Goff

There’s been a lot of discussion over the past year or two on a few blogs (this one, Transterrestrial Musings, and also Wayne Hale’s blog, among several others) about the proper level of emphasis on crew safety for commercial crew … Continue reading →

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Random Thought: Is Commercial Crew Having to be “More Catholic Than the Pope”?

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Jonathan Goff

I realized I already made several of my points about the overemphasis of “safety” for NASA’s commercial crew program back in March, but I heard a recent line that helped me better understand what may be driving this. This probably … Continue reading →

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