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by hypercube33 950 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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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.