[AR] Re: SpaceX
- From: Chris Jones <clj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:21:18 -0400
On 09/10/16 1:41 PM, William Claybaugh wrote:
George:
Occam's razor: the Russians in the past decade have had a lot of
problems that they concluded we due to a rag left in the tank....
It's certainly a possibility, but it's worth noting that "rag left in
the tank" and "engine ingested debris from dirty propellant" have been
the default excuses for launcher failures for a very long time in the
Soviet/Russian programs. Certain senior figures in this program
(Glushko and Chertok come to mind) expressed skepticism at the purported
number of such incidents.
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