>Saying "no" is easy and safe, but at some point, one needs to say "yes" and take risks, otherwise nothing would be done.
True, but that is for cases where you take the risk yourself. If the challenger crew knew the risk and were - fuck it - it's worth it it would have been different than a bureaucrat chasing a promotion.
Especially when that bureaucrat probably suffered no consequences for making the wrong call. Essentially letting other people take all of the risk while accepting none. No demotion, no firing, and even if they did get fired they probably got some kind of comfy pension or whatever
True, but that is for cases where you take the risk yourself. If the challenger crew knew the risk and were - fuck it - it's worth it it would have been different than a bureaucrat chasing a promotion.