THE RED RIVER SAGA: NEWSCENTER

FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION
(Continued from NEWSCENTER)

Project Orion, it's about using nuclear explosions for space travel. I was telling Danika about it when I was watching a DVD
on the subject, she got funny little look and said, "Who came up with that idea? Spongebob?"

That attitude in NASA (or at least the way history looks at it) is something I think I would like'd to have been a part of.
Many Working Institutions and the Workers within have and attitude of "what's the least I have to do". What's worse is
their Superiors, who are supposed to make decisions, are totally scared as to what some other department might say about
such and such. In return very little gets done. For crying out loud, just do something!

We aim for the very minimum and sometimes we don't achieve that. When something happens that slows the snails pace
down they want to fire someone right off the bat. It would be awesome to be there when Gene Krantz made to speech to Mission
Control (I don't remember the exact words) where he said, "I trust your decisions and whatever ones you make I'll stand behind you."

If Apollo 13 was a common workplace production, right off the bat nobody would dare do anything. Then after three days of doing
nothing and Gene would have been fired. Then the CEO's buddy (who worked with him at Buddy's Full Service Gas station would be
promoted). Meanwhile the general employees would all talk about how much better they would have handled the situation if
they were the ones in space. Of course, no energy whatsoever would be put towards getting the astronauts home or
preventing this thing again.

I hear things have changed at NASA since then, but I like that attitude they had then.