An Accident at SpaceX
The key question that everyone, especially SpaceX, should be asking is why was it even possible to run the test while Cabada was in an unsafe place?<p>System and safety design- a topic that a rocketry company should be deeply familiar with- should lead us to solutions where bad things are exceedingly impossible. Where you have to be <i>trying</i> to cause an accident for it to happen. This should extend beyond the product being built itself, to the factory, to the R&amp;D, to every part of the organization where danger exists.<p>And when failure occurs, it behooves you to shout from the rooftop that you messed up, and show the world how you&#x27;re making changes so it can&#x27;t happen again. Being quiet about the failure of your system makes it sound a lot like you aren&#x27;t planning to make any changes to it.<p>It&#x27;s a bad culture to start in a rocketry company.