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You're dealing with incredibly smart people here. Now of course perfect knowledge is almost impossible. But each of the designs is probably specked out with at
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
You're dealing with incredibly smart people here. Now of course perfect knowledge is almost impossible. But each of the designs is probably specked out with at least pluses and minuses and theory is as to whether or not the design is viable, which ways it will perform well or fail.
This is just basic science: theory experiment result.
And with all the documentation and instrumentation on the flights, The theories can be experimentally validated or invalidated.
This isn't like some agile programmer shoving in a couple hundred lines of code over the course of a one week sprint.
- bumby 3y agoWould you have said the same about NASA pre-Challenger/pre-Columbia, or Boeing pre-CST-100? I don't think SpaceX is inherently unique in either the ability of their people or their innate human biases. They may have a different culture, and related to that, I'm pointing out what I've experienced as a potential downside of rapid iteration philosophy. I'm not even saying it's bad, just that we need to be cognizant of it's downsides.