Former JPL engineer here. Knowing how sensitive those things are to the slightest ding or nick, seeing that just gives me the screaming heebie jeebies. I can’t believe they’re being transported around, on vehicles, OUTDOORS, without a hull around them! I am reminded of one of the last shuttle astronauts recounting watching a worker working on a fuel tank with a tool hanging down scoring the tank underneath him as he moved and the astronaut thinking, „I’m going to die on this mission.“ (From a book about the decline in safety culture towards the end of the program)
It just really doesn’t seem like that should be so unprotected.
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Former JPL engineer here. Knowing how sensitive those things are to the slightest ding or nick, seeing that just gives me the screaming heebie jeebies. I can’t believe they’re being transported around, on vehicles, OUTDOORS, without a hull around them! I am reminded of one of the last shuttle astronauts recounting watching a worker working on a fuel tank with a tool hanging down scoring the tank underneath him as he moved and the astronaut thinking, „I’m going to die on this mission.“ (From a book about the decline in safety culture towards the end of the program)
It just really doesn’t seem like that should be so unprotected.