dennis.krenz
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Agreed. Hence why I said "yet". It's not even a NASA thing. Vladimir Komarov died because Soyuz 1 had to be launched on the Politburo's schedule, not when the engineering punch list was finished. Any national space agency has these political pressures.
Ended much worse earlier in the USSR, in 1960, when a certain ICBM test had to take place before a minor national holiday.