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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by diminoten on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:43PM (#8541026)
At some point you need to put people in those ships, and at some point you need to put test people in ships you eventually want to put people into.

Where is the line?

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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by organsnyder on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:50PM (#8541060)
Of course it's easy to say this in hindsight, but I might draw that line somewhere around where you're trying out a new fuel for the first time.
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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by diminoten on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:55PM (#8541082)
Yeah, well you're always trying something for the first time.

But I get what you mean. It's a tough thing to figure out, and hindsight is always going to be "well we shouldn't have done that".

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