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You never get the job done without blowing things up, in any field where you’re treading untrodden ground. See also: Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, Challenger, Columbia, A
by madaxe_again 7y ago
You never get the job done without blowing things up, in any field where you’re treading untrodden ground.
See also: Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, Challenger, Columbia, Apollo 1 - and that’s purely spacecraft which have killed people, never mind the vast list of experimental aviation deaths.
Much better to blow up some prototypes than some humans.
- ashes-of-sol 7y agoApollo 1 was afaik an unexpected engineering lesson. Challenger, and to a lesser extent Columbia, were failures of management not listening to engineers raising the alarm