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Originally Posted by island911
I can't imagine that any of those directly involved in this effort are in it for the money.
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Of course not. I think what the other post claimed, the post that caused the emotional level to rise in this thread, was that corporate interests would like to capitalize on the privatization of the space program and that when profit takes a high degree of priority then the possibility of failures due to cost pressure can occur. I don't think the claim was that lowly engineers were greedy and didn't care about accidents and fatalities. (That would be a stupid claim to make.) Cost pressure/profit maximization has caused accidents in commercial aviation in the past and I think the claim was that it certainly might cause them again as private corporations venture into space flight.