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It's bad to have your hard work blow up in a rocket. But to then re-make the entire thing, put it on another rocket, and have that one blow up too? Hats off to
by mabbo 10y ago
It's bad to have your hard work blow up in a rocket. But to then re-make the entire thing, put it on another rocket, and have that one blow up too?
Hats off to Rachel Lindbergh for being part of a very exclusive club in that regard.
- lb1lf 10y agoWhen in university, I worked on a cubesat project; the first satellite apparently got stuck in its launch container, never getting out to deploy its antennas and say 'Hi, mom!'. Good thing we had built two; now all we had to do was wrestle ourselves in on a later launch. The second, duplicate one? Oh, that wound up in a Kazakh field while still attached to the launch vehicle. I like to think that second one made some poor farmer need a new pair of pants, if nothing else. Then again, as far as impact goes, it would have been a lot cooler to receive one's telemetry from space rather than just having a pair of soiled pants to show for it...
- Buge 10y agoReminds me of the people who survived both atomic bomb attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha#Double_survivors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha#Double_survivors