The May 6 front-page article “SpaceX rockets come under safety experts’ glare” presented an ongoing debate between the safety-obsessive NASA and the avant-garde SpaceX regarding the risky “load-and-go” propellant filling maneuver slated to be used on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. NASA’s primary concern with this innovative but daring operation is the human lives that are at stake, since the rocket could instantaneously erupt in flames if any small mishap were to occur. SpaceX, however, asserts that these risky ventures are necessary if the United States hopes to ever reemerge as the leader in human spaceflight.
Once again, the media and American public are trying to create unnecessary drama between these organizations that are working toward the same goal: resuming human spaceflight from the United States. NASA’s penchant for caution is important in checking SpaceX’s daring and impulsive tendencies, while SpaceX is expanding the realm of possibilities for space travel that NASA seems too afraid to do. Neither organization could accomplish the daunting task on its own; SpaceX would not be benefiting from massive federal grants, and NASA may never have mustered up the courage to reembrace the uncertainty inherent to human space travel.
Irene Kim, Chantilly
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