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Not unless China, Russia and others team up and takes NASA down before that... The way it's going, it will happen... Trump has America in peril and in a very weak states at the moment...

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Virgil “Gus” Grissom Edward H. White II Roger B. Chaffee I grew up in the days when NASA had a great PR dept - they sent beautiful color photos of the astronauts and samples of the Tang, etc. Tragic these men died so young

Everything.

Nailed it. And the media is giving them a pass.

Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia - lessons we have learned about skimping on safety. 😓

My thoughts exactly.

oof

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They left their 3 Corvettes (red, white and blue) in their assigned parking spaces for weeks after the deaths. 🇺🇸

Let Duffy go first.

Safety takes a back seat to a timetable? JFC Duffy!

Ladies and gentlemen - the guy in charge of our transportation system AND NASA. So much winning.

Wild recklessness and speed: famously the trusty ally of innovation and scientific success.

He wants to do for NASA what he did for air safety.

bluesky REALLY needs alternate reaction emoticons than :heart: likes

This is surprisingly reasonable by Trump administration standards. I'm waiting for them to announce that they'll be imprisoning Obama there.

Well, to be fair, he fired the safety panel of the FAA and many air traffic controllers and we’ve had many crashes and many close calls. So we knew he’d do it at NASA also.

...because, to these clowns, rushing to send people to a distant lifeless rock, just to beat someone else to it, is obviously a higher priority than dealing with what this country is currently experiencing.

So, are we ready for the next, most imminent, space disaster? He doesn't cate if a few Astronauts are his ginnea pigs. He's goal and for the Fascist Regime is: "look what I can do!"

For fuck sake, we are not in a space race! Nobody gives a crap if China makes it back to the moon before us.

on a budget of dust and paperclips after getting stripped? I beg any astronauts PLEASE do not get on any rocket for a while, we do not need more repeats of the lost shuttles.

rocket go boom boom has tended to get Nasa's funding cut, at least historically.

But… that chiseled face! You don’t melt?

A few lost astronauts here, a few lost astronauts there...hey, you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

Yes, I expect he does consider people expendable. That's par for the course with this administration.

Ugh. *as expendable

Yes, to the christofascists we are all high functioning livestock. We are all expendable for their profit or glory. If you are ill or disable you are faulty livestock and should starve with the least expense to the neo-nobility. Making conditions safe is extra expense.

They've already proven they do. See food safety, water safety, medical advice safety...

We live in the STUPIDEST timeline

Outrageous thing to say. Par for the course. This entire administration needs to be held accountable.

@wtyppod.bsky.social will never run out of episodes now...

>>”Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" CHALLENGER enters the chatroom Engineers warned management not to launch. Schedule trumped safety The new NASA mantra The findings of the investigation into the next event that kills our astronauts: “There were no new lessons learned”

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A race lost 20 years ago

This so tragic- two heroes fighting to sacrifice themselves so their friend might live, and for no reason all. What a waste.

I think you win the Internet this evening.

Anybody who voted for this should be denied promotion, forever.

He should take first test flight in all new designs.

Killing people is just collateral damage.

More armchair masculinity puffery from MAGA World.

A key paragraph showing the insanity on display- Despite the White House proposing to slash the agency's budget by roughly 24%, Duffy insisted the Artemis program will continue, but “it’s important that we bring the cost down.”

We’ve seen the result of not "letting safety be the enemy of progress" The Space Shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986

well, sean's policy of not "letting safety be the enemy of progress" is in full effect in his day job at our airports and airlines... www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/t...

Who else is in this space race?

Exactly.

Maybe they should have a chat about safety with the next of kin of everyone on that Oceangate sub 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Is t the 2nd pic the Columbia crew, not Challenger?

I mean if the road rules guy says so

Except ... nothing will set back the United States' manned space program like dead astronauts. Fuqqing morons. They can't even think one step ahead, forget one step for all mankind.

Duffy should ride on every flight

So F the astronauts???

What’s a few more dead astronauts killed in explosions of billion dollar spacecraft?

The U.S.A. is Failing in every consequential area of Science and Growth under this SICK, MORONIC Fascist Regime!... The MOST UNQUALIFIED are in Charge and this Only spells "D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R.‼️"

I think that race was won decades ago 😆

These ppl are unbelievably stupid. The press isn't far behind.

Says the guy NOT throttling into outer space in a tin can with wings at mach 7, designed by a guy with a ketamine addiction.

without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours. There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet.

WTAF with normalizing life-endangering bullshit? It should be obvious, but “full steam ahead” means progress (note the word “ahead”) not regression…which actively ignoring safety concerns about actually is. You’re becoming just a bunch of toadies carrying water for the pot in which you’re boiling.

Elon: Hey “safety is the enemy of progress” is Tesla’s motto!

I think I've seen this before...though last time it was in a silent film.

Major vibes

What? We’re using steam engines in space???

This guy won’t ride the subway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

MAGA is a death cult

FFFO - fail fast, fail often BEFORE anyone gets actually hurt.

Try this. Duffy must be on every manned lunar mission.

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Yeah right

Ah yes the tried and trusted corporate method of “kill who you like (not Me of course) so long as we are on top” system. Those child coal miners should be brought back, right?

Even better: they will send two Americans to the sun! What? Too hot? Well, no! They land by night.

Put dipshit on every mission. Is he anorexic or something?What is going on with him?

Be even better if you'd never say it at all.

Hmmmm. It seems to me several astronauts died due to such an attitude. Some people are slow learners.

What does Sean Duffy know about astronomy, cosmology & space exploration? Nor is there any “race to space.” Your only trophy is getting beyond the moon & coming back alive.

There’s obvious concerns about crew safety. Rest assured our astronauts will be safe. They will remain firmly on the ground, as most of the program elements have barely enough budget for sustainment or are imminently cancelled.

I guess safety is now considered “woke”.

Space race? With who? To where? What is an acceptable level of casualties in the mythical race? FFS what happened to @nbcnews.com

Ignoring safety, no test pilot would last long enough to become close to permanent. 😟

Hopefully Duffy will be a test pilot.

Sean Duffy is too scared to ride the NYC subway my kid has ridden solo since 4th grade, but, like Soviet Communist leaders in the 1960's, he's more than happy to risk other people's lives on unsafe rockets. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

you wanna know what loses the space race? dead astronauts you dumb fuck

Apollo 13 may have only had enough power to run a coffee pot for 9 hours, but it was still more than the power running to Sean Duffy's brain.

Put Duffy in the first capsule going to Jupiter.

Hell yeah! Where do I sign up for that?

Safe rockets tend to travel further, Mr Duffy. Perhaps you should spend more time dealing with your crippling subway phobia?

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I suggest Duffy volunteers to test the first rockets built under this new 'safety' protocol. Aim it at the sun, for progress.

I really, really hope that this is bullshit, and Duffy never said or implied that safety should be sacrificed in favor of progress. I really, really think that he actually did just that.

Useless chickenshit fuck says what?

Lassiez-Faire.

And they will cut Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps to do it??

WTF is "winning?"

NBC…. You need to do better. It’s not ur job to report one side said it’s raining and the other side says it’s sunny. GO LOOK OUTSIDE and see if it’s raining and tell us. Your job is to tell us the truth.

“Oxygen’s for losers!”

It's terrifying that this sounds like a parody, but it's real

Everywhere they go they disrupt. Leave the fkn moon alone

Who gives a shit about the moon! Things are terrible down here!

Yeah, fuck that.

Sean "I was on the worst season of The Real World" Duffy is the same age as mean. That means he likely watched the Challenger disaster live on television - you know, the explosion that happened because NASA stretched the shuttle's operational parameters too far, so they could maintain a schedule.

Duffy, "Take no precautions. Use one of Elons rockets, shove some guys inside, and send it to the moon."

...seeing as we WON the first space race, the only way we could lose a second race would be if they kept drastically cutting the budget & micromanaging the fuck out of NASA, and ruined our fragile economy as it was just starting to pull together, oh, wait, hold my dang space beer golly Galaxy gee...

How about Duffy goes first? I think the guy who is terrified to take the subway should show the astronauts how it’s done.

Back to sacrificing human lives on the altar of the big man’s ego, I see.

"letting safety be the enemy of progress" it's crazy the things these people say. It's easy to say that when your life is not on the line.

Sean Duffy must have been partying when the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy happened.