I don't know, I guess as long as the skipper can get his hand on the abort handle it's all good...?
Well yes, I noticed, yet they still want to dampen the seats too. I'm just wondering what's the use of damping seats only, if the rest of the capsule if still going to vibrate. Or are they saying that without those dampened seats astronauts would get so screwed up that they would be incapable of any meaningful activity afterwards?
Sounds more like "If nothing changes, nothing will fly". But NASA is not underfunded. It is in reality over-funded - the money flows into NASA often without the requirements of reaching specific mile stones. Not really effective.