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Whats your point
by iknowstuff 2y ago
Whats your point
- michaelt 2y agoThat building a rocket launch pad is in fact more difficult than pouring a slab for a garage, and there some nontrivial technical issues involved. Having chunks of the launchpad go flying isn't just an inconvenience - flying debris during launch can damage critical rocket systems, as the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster demonstrated.
- wonderwonder 2y agoand they figured out how to prevent this happening by the next launch just a few months later. So it turned out to be fairly trivial after all. SpaceX is able to iterate in months what it takes Nasa and its contractors years to do.
- faggotbreath 2y ago[dead]