Jeff Wright: You are cherry-picking my posts. If you do a search on BtB for “NASA” “safety” and “panel” you will get a much fairer impression of the safety panel’s corrupt favoritism towards SLS, Orion, and Boeing and its generally irrational hostility to SpaceX. That one post where the panel questions SLS is the exception to the rule. But they did, and I posted that they did because I try to report things accurately.

However, that panel report critical of SLS was in 2015, and was likely the last time the panel lambasted SLS with any seriousness. Since then the panel tends to try to ignore SLS entirely. If it says anything, it generally repeats NASA talking points.

“NASA’s corrupt safety panel once lambasts SpaceX for the delays in its Starship program, even though the main culprit was red tape during the Biden administration. I wonder when our propaganda press will stop paying attention to this junk panel, that hasn’t gotten anything right in years. ”

Which didn’t stop Mr. Z. from posting this.
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-safety-panel-questions-safety-of-sls/

Or did the Safety Panel only get corrupt when it dared critique a non-existing Lunar Starships now that Orion and SLS are about to fly for a second time?

Sounds familiar:
” you done quit preaching and gone to meddlin’.”
https://sermoncentral.com/sermon-illustrations/82285/you-done-quit-preachin-and-gone-to-meddlin-by-rick-pendleton

60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/60-years-after-gemini-newly-processed-images-reveal-incredible-details/

Publisher book page here: https://www.apolloremastered.com/gemini-and-mercury-remastered

Let an institution get one project after another poorly funded and/or yanked—and there is always some wise-acre who wants to slime the whole outfit for failures that came from lack of support of that institution.

Long before Elon Musk, the face of space privatization (outside of a few writers) was Gary Hudson.

He had been told “no” so many times that it became a running joke that his involvement with a project was the “kiss of death.”

Sad to go from Tom Swift to Richard Widmark.

Alex: Thank you! I will amend the post. Jay’s X feed often sends him old tweets with no distinction. Both of us try to catch these things, but we don’t always succeed.