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0 pointsdarksim9052y ago0 comments

In the time that it took you to ask several people for the TL;DR, you could've watched the video.

I guess I summarize things different than others, but at the 32:00 minute mark, he talks about what he was actually scared about:

NASA is essentially, a business (my addition) -- that does not know how to communicate. The left hand very much does not know what the right hand is doing. He brings up a fantastic example of how many rockets are required for a particular phase of a mission and showed how multiple people gave different answers without even realizing their launch date is set in stone.

In essence, issues abound.

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avmich2y ago

> He brings up a fantastic example of how many rockets are required for a particular phase of a mission and showed how multiple people gave different answers without even realizing their launch date is set in stone.

Careful here - multiple Starship refueling launches shown in the video (I've counted 24 tanker launches) are not set in stone and might be not that important for the mission itself, it's just an example of a valid question with added concern that we've yet to have this uncertainty resolved. It may look like an Exhibit A of mismanagement, but could be a very different thing.

I think the most important think he's saying is that NASA is not enough focused on the success of moving forward.

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