'Roughly what I expected.'
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson appears to be on the controversial billionaire's side, testifying in Congress last week that the explosive test flight didn't worry him in the slightest.
The explosion "is not a big downer in the way that SpaceX does things," Nelson told Congress, according to. "They are hardware-rich... that's their modus operandi. They launch. If something goes wrong, they figure out what it is. They go back, and they launch it again." And to Nelson's point, all of Musk's ventures, from Twitter to Tesla to SpaceX, generally tend to operate by way of trial-by-error. But the ethics are certainly up for debate.
It's one thing to do some trial-by-error testing if you're doing, say, long division, or trying to build a lightbulb. It's another to
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