Spinsanity - Countering rhetoric with reason today on Maureen Dowd's shot at NASA. She assumed that NASA knew the shuttle would not make the re entry in one piece and wrote:
"Consider the pathetic performance of NASA, which inverted its motto to "Failure is an option" by shrugging off warnings about the safety of the seven Columbia astronauts who burned up coming back to earth, and not trying to send up a rescue shuttle."
Not true. Yes some at NASA wanted to look closer at the foam hitting the shuttle after take off, and in fact they did. But to say that NASA knew what would happen is not at all the case. What a massive insult to the entire NASA community.
We can assume she did not read the NASA report on Columbia and did not look into the reasons why a rescue shuttle flight probably wouldn't have helped.
FU Mo D. What a slam to so many NASA workers and the memory of Columbia. Another reason I read more news and check out stories on the web. Well when I can.
I did not read her column in the NYT, you need to register and sign up or something, and I never have. I'm just commenting on what Spinsanity wrote about it. I guess the NASA line was used to make another point about something, but I don't care what else she wrote. She is almost always writing something negative and often gets things wrong.
Spinsanity ends with this comment, "Apparently, cheap shots are also a tool in the repertoire of the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist."
read it here Dowd's unfair NASA-bashing
They also link to this article giving lots of detail on what happened that terrible morning.
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