Re: Saturday Falcon 1 launch and weather?

"Tom Cuddihy" <tom.cuddihy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Derek Lyons wrote:
>> "Tom Cuddihy" <tom.cuddihy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >That's why the first launch(and several thereafter) is always a test,
>> >because no matter how much energy you put into preventing bad things,
>> >you're always going to miss something.
>>
>> Missing something isn't the problem Tom. Missing something that
>> should never have happened in the first place is. Verification of
>> valve positions is basic discipline for any system containing valves,
>> no need for years of wheel spinning to know that - it's right there in
>> the basic principles.
>
>Well, maybe spaceX should hire some nukes to straighten that *** out.

Why nukes when there are plenty of strat weaponeers around? Nuke
discipline is slighty different.

That being said; the Navy only helped me learn what I'd already gotten
the rudiments of from summer jobs (in a printing plant, not at Burger
King), from hobbies (not video games), and from my Dad.

Heck - one of the most disciplined people I know about procedures,
tools, setup, etc... isn't even college educated. He's a machinist
who learned on the job in his late teens back in WWII here in the
shipyards.

D.
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