Chairman Mao wrote:

In all fairness to NASA engineers and physicists though, it seems that there were a fair amount of worried people who got swiftly and completely ignored by management. Just like everywhere else.

Here's the problem. It's NASA itself. My ham-handed solution: fire everybody, scrap the shuttles and (if necessary) the station, and start over. Fuck all of this nonsense.

Agreed; but it needs to be replaced with something governmental or military, not private corporations.