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When is anything ever certain? The first shuttle flights flew with only two people who had ejection seats, clearly NASA wasn't certain of success. I've been w
by mcpackieh 3y ago
When is anything ever certain? The first shuttle flights flew with only two people who had ejection seats, clearly NASA wasn't certain of success.
I've been watching MIT 16.885J recently, it's a lecture series from 2005 about the space shuttle with lectures given about numerous shuttle subsystems by people who actually worked on them, administrators and lead engineers. Several of them have expressed reservations about the systems in the shuttles. Fear that the hydraulic system was a ticking timebomb that should be replaced with electromechanic systems, recounting an early fear that the Colombia breakup had been caused by a landing gear explosion, etc. These guys weren't certain of much, everybody knew it was a risky project.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL35721A60B7B57386 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL35721A60B7B57386