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by aredox 1044 days ago
Well, you can tell us about the event/project that led you to coin that rule and how it panned out...
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It's been long enough that my memories are fuzzy, but I believe it was this:

https://ssl.umd.edu/ranger

The project was highly successful from an R&D perspective, but it never flew in space for a variety of reasons. SOme of those were related to a lack of funding and/or national commitment to spacecraft servicing, and some were due to us not executin the program as expeditiously as we probably should have.