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Starship Flight 5: Pessimism Defeated

After much wrangling with federal regulators, SpaceX finally got their booster catch attempt - and, incredibly, nailed it first time.

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Oct 13, 2024
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

- Richard Feynman

When Richard Feynman added these words to the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, he was summing up a criticism of the internal culture at NASA which had enabled that disaster. It was a…

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