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To: TigerLikesRooster

Don’t get too excited. How many rockets failed before Von Braun got it right? In aerospace every failure leads to the finished product.


18 posted on 05/30/2016 6:25:26 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic
I got the impression that they are under heavy pressure to make it work fast. Compared with their past test launches, this series of test has been done without enough time between tests, which is needed to fix problems.

Political imperative appears to trump engineering concerns.

21 posted on 05/30/2016 6:37:11 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: Organic Panic
Don’t get too excited. How many rockets failed before Von Braun got it right?

Thanks for that context. Mockery is shameful.

Who are we to laugh at their lack of lighting? Do you know how many failures Edison had before he got the light bulb right? Of course that was 140 years ago, and 75 years ago on Von Braun's rocket, but who are we to laugh?
(hint: we are the ones a century ahead...a century!!!)

35 posted on 05/31/2016 9:13:42 AM PDT by laotzu
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