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The hype was created by the media.

Mark expressed confidence in the vehicle many times. Steve provided plenty of technical details throughout this. The "journalists" either don't have the vocabulary to understand this or weren't interested in that aspect so the questions asked were nothing but drama bullshit followed up by daily articles that provided no new information and opinionated hype.
The crew expressed confidence in the vehicle directly to these "journalists" in their own Q&A session as well. Nothing but drama questions and bullshit articles.
I posted back in June that the media was whipping you guys up into a tissy over nothing.

What makes the media so credible with this but anywhere else they are viewed as full of shit?

JSC and DC make the final decision as to which way this goes. The chief astronaut made this clear. Those decision makers had all of the information and details and couldn't make an informed decision, they flew in experts to help them understand and still had "questions that couldn't be answered". JSC huh, that's where they work on space ships so they should know right? Nope. How bout DC? lol. Why is this panel flying in experts? Why is the panel not made up of experts?

There was one comment that was made in all this and I hate to give that dick Berger credit for it but I will. He said back in shuttle days they had daily briefings of flights and that went away with the shuttle. I'd like for them to go back to that pattern with providing information and IFAs daily for all of the service providers. That information used to be available and searchable to the "outside" it isn't even available inside to people not involved anymore.

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Fuck that guy.  Just fuck him.  He had no business in state government, he had no place in DC, and he certainly does not need to be in charge of NASA.

Fuck that guy.