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>>10703115
SpaceX really dodged a bullet. Depending on what the root cause of the anomexplosion was, things could've gone much MUCH worse.
>In an alternate timeline the Dragon exploded while docked to the ISS, depressurizing half the modules and forcing its crew to abandon ship
>Congress gets UBERMAD about the fact a huge part of their $400B investment just went up in smoke and may not be able to be salvaged
>Russia and everyone else on the ISS project get UBERMAD about the fact their smaller (but still significant) investments went up in smoke.
>Report comes out blaming NASA for being overly cushy to SpaceX, and SpaceX not following established Aerospace engineering procedures
>Commercial crew is either cancelled outright (if the ISS is deemed unsalvageable) or limps on in a massively reduced state (if parts of the ISS can be saved), with a huge redesign of Starliner and Dragon to use conventional LES towers
>Delays from investigation and redesign are so bad that Artemis 2 fucking flies crew on the SLS before the redesigned capsules are ready
Depends on the root cause, but whether it was something that could've happened at the ISS while docked or not, let's all be fucking glad it DIDN'T.