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NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

327 points · 403 comments · ilamont

  1. Centigonal · · focus · HN ↗
    This feels like the steam catapault kerfuffle from earlier this year. Maybe I'm missing some vital reason these retired technologies must be revived, but it's not inspiring when our military doctrine is "let's go back to what worked 60 years ago"
    1. UberFly · · focus · HN ↗
      My speculation level is at full but the SR-71 program was the gold standard and I think it's good to tap those responsible for it. They were doing some incredible stuff 60 short years ago and dismissing it as "old" is folly.
      1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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