Except that is entirely bullshit.<p>The reason everyone is up in arms, still to this day, about the Columbia &quot;accident&quot; is because we could have sent a second shuttle to retrieve them very easily.<p>NASA engineers were fighting the decision for the Columbia to return because they already were assembling a plan to get them home alive.<p>Seven astronauts died because Bush put Sean O&#x27;Keefe in as Administrator of NASA, and Sean O&#x27;Keefe decided it&#x27;d cost NASA less money to let the astronauts die instead of bringing them back alive.<p>Sean O&#x27;Keefe personally tried to halt any work on sending Atlantis up as a rescue mission, and ended up succeeding, all in the name of budgetary concerns. He didn&#x27;t give a fuck about those astronauts.<p>And to him? It was just a revolving door. He&#x27;s now working some cushy job at Airbus as their US CEO, a military contractor he made friends with when he worked for the DoD and was Secretary of the Navy (under Bush&#x27;s father, the other President Bush).<p>So, fuck him. This wasn&#x27;t an accident, this was murder for profit.