Clark Lindsey took notes. I liked this:
/– How to deal with safety questions on Capitol Hill?
Bigelow: As a client, safety of the lifters is extremely important. We are going to expect well used and understood systems.
Anderson: NASA had astronauts flying on Ares I on its second flight. The commercial rockets will have flown many times before they every carry crews.
Musk: Southwest might have half the ticket price of a competitor yet no one thinks they are doing that by cutting on safety. Southwest’s safety record is one of the best.
Of all the lies, damned lies and statistics in this ongoing debate, the subject of safety has been the most meretricious.
Good stuff, all.
Clark also has as round up of all of the rapid-fire shoddy reporting on today’s announcements.
Points for use of the word “meretricious”. 😉
I would say in today’s articles on the NASA budget, most titles are along the lines of “Moon Program Canceled” or “NASA to end Human spaceflight” rather than, say, “Constellation canceled” or “Constellation replaced by new manned program”. These latter more accurate titles would not work, however, because members of the media outside of aerospace know very well that the name “Constellation” would be unrecognized by most of their readers….