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

327 points · 403 comments · ilamont

Centigonal · 1790730865 · 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. playa1 · 1790797890 · focus · HN ↗
  My guess this started as a misunderstanding and nobody wants to admit it.
  Like Four Seasons Total Landscaping or Tools For Humanity and Bruno Mars.

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