Wayne Hale

Beliefs Korrents

• Korrents What they believe 11 beliefs, 1 changed mind — each backed by an exact quote.

  Each is a korrent — compiled by korrents.com, not by them: the one-line wordings are korrents', the quotes are theirs.

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  • Spaceflight is not safe by any ordinary standard of safety, and pretending otherwise is what kills crews.

    Before getting too far, remember this constant in space flight: it is not safe by any ordinary consideration of safety.

    Flight Rationale Said 5 Aug 2024

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  • A declared root cause is a best guess, not a fact, and should be treated with suspicion.

    Always take the determination of ‘root cause’ with a grain of salt.

    Flight Rationale Said 5 Aug 2024

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  • Engineers will always ask for more data, so someone has to decide without certainty and own the risk to human life.

    The engineers will always always always ask for more tests, more analysis, more time to get more information to be more certain of their conclusions.

    Flight Rationale Said 5 Aug 2024

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  • Wanting badly to launch is itself a hazard: the pressure to fly is what turns small anomalies into accidents.

    Temptation is very high to wave away issues, ignore anomalies, squeeze the rules, or brush aside inconsistencies just to GET ON WITH IT.

    Launch Fever Said 3 Mar 2019

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  • Extending consciousness beyond Earth, out to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal.

    When we have built colonies on every habitable niche, then maybe we will find a way to go to the stars.

    Manifest Destiny or Pipe Dream? Said 18 Sept 2014

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  • The goal of spaceflight is the whole solar system, not any single destination the experts are arguing over.

    The ‘horizon goal’ isn’t Mars, it is the entire solar system.

    Manifest Destiny or Pipe Dream? Said 18 Sept 2014

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  • A team that agrees has not examined the problem hard enough; dissent is what makes a decision safe.

    If you don’t have dissention, then you haven’t examined the problem closely enough.

    After Ten Years: Enduring Lessons Said 31 Jan 2013

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  • In a risky organisation, defer to expertise rather than to leaders.

    Defer to expertise rather than leaders.

    After Ten Years: Enduring Lessons Said 31 Jan 2013

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  • NASA denied Shuttle crews parachutes and pressure suits because it had convinced itself the vehicle was as safe as an airliner.

    We were told that flying in the space shuttle was just as safe as flying in a commercial airliner, so we denied the crew parachutes and pressure suits.

    After Ten Years: Enduring Lessons Said 31 Jan 2013

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  • The Columbia investigation focused on the wrong part of the wing: the engineers were analysing tiles when the damage was to the leading edge.

    So all the discussion in the accident report about the flaws in the tile analysis are simply not applicable.

    After Ten Years: Working on the Wrong Problem Said 13 Jan 2013

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  • Disasters come from organisational conditions, not from bad individuals, so blaming a person prevents the fix.

    So don’t blame an individual; looks for the organizational factors that lead to that kind of a mindset.

    After Ten Years: Working on the Wrong Problem Said 13 Jan 2013

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  Beliefs others hold too

  • Extending consciousness beyond Earth, out to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal. 2 hold this

    When we have built colonies on every habitable niche, then maybe we will find a way to go to the stars.

    Manifest Destiny or Pipe Dream? Said 18 Sept 2014

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  All 11 beliefs and 1 change of mind →