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Who do you think built the shuttle…?

Also, not defending the Musk shitstain, but focusing on “blowing up launch pads” tells me you probably know very little about the Space industry or development.

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I probably should have been more specific, though you’re right.

They seem to think though that NASA themselves did most of the design and manufacturing or something, instead of farming a ton of it out to various contractors (Thiokol, etc). That absolutely happened with STS.

In fact, the Space Shuttle is where costs and time frames and project management and etc started to go off the rails - and led to where we are with Boeing and others today. It’s a bad one to choose to make his point - even if we were actually still getting SOME shit done back then and the situation hadn’t deteriorated so badly.

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but focusing on “blowing up launch pads” tells me you probably know very little about the Space industry or development.

That wasn’t the focus of my post, but are you suggesting that there is a nonzero number of rocket explosions that would be considered acceptable?

I don’t need to be Elon Musk, or even know much about the space industry or development to know that the target number should always be zero.

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but are you suggesting that there is a nonzero number of rocket explosions that would be considered acceptable?

…yes? During development specifically. Of course there is.

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Let me know how that interview goes, because if the rocket you developed and spent billions of dollars building explodes at launch, you’re going to be looking for a new line of work.

I’m sure the next aeronautics company will totally understand. Mondays, am I right?

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