Eerily similar to the problems identified after the Challenger accident. Same political and financial pressures, same attitudes.
To quote the late, great Richard Feynman (of the Rodgers Commission): "I read all of these reviews and they agonise whether they can go even though they have some blow-by in the seal or they had a cracked blade in the pump of one of the engines, whether they can go next time or this time and they decide yes. Then it flies and nothing happens"
"Then it is suggested, therefore, that the risk is no longer so high. For the next flight we can lower our standards a little bit because we got away with it this time....It is a kind of Russian roulette."
And the next generation will go be back to the Dynasoar [X-20] style lifting-body spaceplanes that the USAF were forced to abandon in the '70s. Ho-hum...