That obviously makes no sense. My car will tell me if a door is open, but somehow there is no sensor to detect this on a plane, where such a thing would be catastrophic as the plane gained altitude.
If that's just the ones quitting publicly, that's a really bad sign. If I was at Basecamp right now, I'd seriously consider accepting that offer, not out of concern about the policy change but out of concern about the future of a company that lost 1/3rd of its employees.
To some degree sure, that's probably inevitable, but I've never seen a situation where a significant percentage of people leave (for whatever reason) and there isn't a followup a day or two later that everyone needs to roll up their sleeves and work harder to make up for it.
For those that haven't seen the video, he consulted on the Netflix film 'Stowaway' (that comes out later this month). He whipped up a design for the proposed spacecraft in a few minutes to help the directors visualize it better.
Also, the first test did not reveal any kind of flaw in design or construction of the stage. It aborted early because of hydraulic pressure fluctuations that were within spec -- but exceeded extremely conservative limits in place for that test to protect the stage. The main thing that differed in the second test was a software tweak to relax those limits.
I personally think continuing the program is throwing good money after bad, given the availability of alternatives and the limited missions left for SLS (I'm not sure they're planning to use it for anything other than Orion at this point) -- but test failures are expected in rocketry (SpaceX has plenty in public), and it makes no sense at all to beat NASA up for this one.
> According to De Telegraaf, no signal would have come through in the cockpit before departure that the door was not closed properly.