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

327 points · 403 comments · ilamont

  1. braiamp · · focus · HN ↗
    > “Every time I threw one of these things out there, he says, ‘Oh, engineering will take care of that [and] engineering will take care of that,’” Relja recalls.

    That sounds all to familiar to people that actually has to accomplish stuff, heard from management. Engineering will not take care of that because engineering is the one that is raising the concerns!

    1. teew · · focus · HN ↗
      Yeah, compare that statement to Thomas Zurbuchen's assumption that solving engineering problems was a 70% social and 30% technical issue...
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