Some critics of space exploration programs claim that they are too costly to be justified. Moreover, there is the very real risk of a debilitating explosion—most experts say something like a 1-in-70 chance per flight. Budgetary pressures to make the programs cheaper only serve to undermine safety: one program’s managers uncovered a of the pressure to produce results as quickly and cheaply as possible.
What this question is testing
Premises
The passage walks through a chain of causes: critics complain about cost; that complaint puts budgetary pressure on the programs; the pressure to be cheaper and faster ends up causing manufacturing flaws — which are a safety problem.
Evaluate
So we have two problems on the table: cost (the original complaint) and safety (the manufacturing flaws). And the passage tells us that the response to the cost problem is making the safety problem worse.
For Most Supported, we want the simplest, most directly supported takeaway. The cleanest one here is: trying to solve one problem (cost) can make another problem (safety) worse.
Goal
The right answer captures that dynamic — addressing one problem can exacerbate another.
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