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by cromwellian 949 days ago
The rest of the industry doesn’t build dozens of ships in a massive assembly line. Blue Origin hasn’t even completed a single full test prototype ship yet.

And if you go look at NASA during the Space Race era of the 60s, they blew up plenty of ships.
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hypercube33 949 days ago
And there's tons of video about V2 blowing up which is where we got our 1960s tech from
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mcpackieh 949 days ago
The 1960s tech also blew up a lot as well.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/USAF_ICB...

Blowing up lots of rockets to figure out how not to blow up rockets is traditional rocket development. The "get everything perfect the first time so it never blows up even once" tactic is forced on NASA because Congress is dumb.

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