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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by wolf550e on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:22AM (#18707755)
You should learn about how the shuttle was created and sold to the public 1972-1986.
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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by programd on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:41PM (#18708608)
This is the perfect place to recommend "History of the Space Shuttle, Volume Two: Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981" by T. A. Heppenheimer. An excellent account of a nation-scale engineering project and all the myriad engineering, economic, infrastructure, political, and project management pieces that go into it. Eye opening if you've never been involved in true mega-scale projects.

There's also "Space Shuttle Decision, 1965-1972 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume 1", but I think Volume 2 is far more interesting from an engineering point of view.

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