Confirming somewhat that the public affair dimension has outsized the technical aspects:
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Exclusive | Boeing execs fought NASA in heated arguments about stranded astronauts flying home in leaky Starliner: ‘Wildly irresponsible’
“What’s the headline if there’s a catastrophic failure? It’s not ‘Boeing killed two astronauts,’ it’s ‘NASA killed two astronauts,” one NASA ex…nypost.com
"Normalization of Deviance" -Diane Vaughan, about STS-51L launch decision.
"By God Thiokol, when do you want me to launch - in April ?"
Glad NASA did not budged.