ok I feel completely insane asking this but like weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
I feel like I'm losing my mind. I understand the part about the "cost-savings by outsourcing to theoretically nimbler private sector" and the "cuts to NASA" but also. the rockets keep exploding. didn't they used to not explode
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Also applies to planes, etc…