Despite the abrupt ending, neither the company nor industry observers see the flight as a failure. That’s because the history of spaceflight is riddled with programs that have learned from explosive mistakes during test flights to reach their goals.
“There are lots of different ways to succeed and fail with these kinds of tests,” says Teasel Muir-Harmony, a historian of science at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Scientific American
Author: Meghan Bartels
Twitter: @sciam
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