Nothing fails like a history of success
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Nothing fails like a history of success
To facilitate learning from failure, NASA catalogs mistakes in human spaceflight in a document called “Flight Rules.”55 The rules are a record of the past to guide the future. They’re a body of knowledge culled from decades of missteps and miscalculations to ensure that the lessons endure. The document contains thousands of anomalies that have come
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