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  • sprittytinklestoSpaceflightMemesULA employee "critiques" Starship architecture
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    21 days ago

    Because a lot of “Released Engineering Documents” were just engineering notebooks, and each vehicle was different, even the parts that were supposed to be the same. There was a lot of “repair” versus “rework” disposition, and a “Just make it work; it only needs to work once” culture.

    Basically, because it was a race against the Russians, and the Russians were winning.