Ejection systems are serious business.....which is what makes this request by NASA so bizarre....to me anyway.
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You’d think MIT or JPL could figure it.
NASA work is almost all done by contractors and always has been. The thing unusual about the this RFP is the breadth of possible performers.
It’s weird, but sometimes a farmer or machinist brainstorms and thinks so far outside the box the “professional” engineers are in that they can trip light bulbs on ideas where none of the textbook trained brainiacs thought to look.