{"id":12544,"date":"2012-04-23T21:53:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/do-not-click-on-the-red-button-thank-you-click\/"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:54:53","slug":"do-not-click-on-the-red-button-thank-you-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/do-not-click-on-the-red-button-thank-you-click\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not click on the red button, thank you. Click."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n  <p>Last November, Russia launched a widely anticipated mission to the Martian moon Phobos (&#8230;) the mission was supposed to mark a \u201ccavalry charge\u201d that would redeem a quarter-century of interplanetary impotence. Instead it turned into a cosmic humiliation when the craft died shortly after takeoff and fell back to Earth.<br><br>\n  Phobos was part of a series of recent disappointments for Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. (&#8230;) The overall track record of Russian space launches is still not significantly different from that of other spacefaring nations, and the country did successfully ferry two groups of astronauts to and from the International Space Station late last year. <strong>But it is the nature of the apparent causes of the accidents\u2014often amazingly inept human errors\u2014that seems most alarming.<\/strong><br><br>\n  (&#8230;) Valery Ryumin, a former cosmonaut and now deputy chief designer of the firm that builds and operates Russia\u2019s human space vehicles, told Echo of Moscow the day after the Progress crash that <strong>\u201cof course, quality is worsening\u2014we have to admit this.\u201d He added that \u201cchecks have become far less thorough than back in old Soviet days.\u201d The main reason for this trend is the loss of experienced workers and the industry\u2019s inability to attract qualified replacements in sufficient numbers.<\/strong><br><br>\n  (Scientific American, May 2012, James E. Oberg: &#8220;Not Ready for Takeoff&#8221;, p.13)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, Russia launched a widely anticipated mission to the Martian moon Phobos (&#8230;) the mission was supposed to mark a \u201ccavalry charge\u201d that would redeem a quarter-century of interplanetary impotence. Instead it turned into a cosmic humiliation when the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/do-not-click-on-the-red-button-thank-you-click\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chose-a-dit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12546,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions\/12546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}