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Current and former employees at blue origin who cited safety as a concern. when you look at all these things happening, where does your mind go in terms of safety? >> in terms of safety, the commercial space industry and commercial space things are very cognizant if it were to suffer an accident, especially early on in these attempts, that would basically shut them down. in a big-picture sense, i don't believe any of these companies will be launching individuals to touch space or into orbit later without being confident in their safety process and their actual rockets and spacecraft and system...

David Keeling, Vice President of Global Health and Safety at UPS, shares his experience working with over half a billion front-line employees.

An air safety panel says the safety process of boeing's 737 max liner was flawed. it singles out boeing and the u.s. federal aviation administration, the faa, for their roles in the development of the now-grounded aircraft which was involved in two large and deadly crashes. cnn's renee marsh has this report. >> reporter: a newly released report cites the faa and boeing for the failures in the 737 max. the joint authorities' technical review released their report on friday, looking at the oversight of the certification for this plane as well as the process involved in approving the plane's mcas...

Faa always defers to boeing. defers to a lot of different makers. is that true? isn't that the opposite of the exigency of oversight? >> well, it kind of is, chris, but back in 2009, this whole idea of oversight at least in the aircraft manufacturing side changed a great deal. the faa kind of extracted itself as the safety process. they said, we're now going to be the safety overseers as in we're going to draft up the regulations, here's how they're supposed to be done. you go do these. but as part of that regulation, you have to have a continuous improvement program, you have to continually s...

You get overconfident in that system and forget what you really have to do is check yourself to see if you've swayed your decisions or if there's something you're not looking at and i think that's what happened here. i think they became so strongly committed to the fact that we have safe aircraft that they weren't willing to take that step back and say, hold the bus, let's just park these airplanes for one minute, let's figure it out. let's see what we have going on here and see if the fixes we have in place that we put in place after lion air when those come out in april, will that fix the pr...