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Can anything be engineered retroactively? I mean: the thing flew and landed, so there was clearly some successful engineering going on, before launch. The requ
by ragebol 5y ago
Can anything be engineered retroactively? I mean: the thing flew and landed, so there was clearly some successful engineering going on, before launch.
The requirements were heavily influenced by politics, that is for sure.
- aero-glide2 5y agoBiggest problem was that since the astronaut office demanded it should always be manned, design changes were very conservative. No rapid iteration was possible.
- Robotbeat 5y agoThe usual way of describing Shuttle in this way (which I assuming they are paraphrasing here) is it was “zip code engineered,” meaning it was intentionally designed with contractors spread across the country so as to maximize its political support base.