experienced rocket builders should have planned for it
I really wonder about the truth of this statement. We assume they hire the
best but many of the old timers from Apollo and many other past programs
are retired and/or just gone. There are things an experienced rocket
engineer knows that were learned empirically, not in the classroom but on
the pad or test stand..
And not just NASA, even the great SpaceX used titanium in an oxidizer
system, a complete no-no but it happened.
Plus humans are fallible and will always make mistakes.
Ken
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 3:18 AM James Fackert <jimfackert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Seems that exposure to high humidity on the pad at ksc should be
expected, and experienced rocket builders should have planned for it.
Delays on the pad are not uncommon either...
As I remember folks came down on Spacex for making a valve design error on
Dragon Crew. that was obvious in retrospect. It was rapidly corrected.
They did blow up a test capsule though, rather spectacularly.
