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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1514293)	1/18/2025 4:23:55 PM
From: Heywood40	3 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 denizen48 Tenchusatsu Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579988

The point is, 38 years later, the latest SpaceX loss appears to be from a seal failure similar to the one the Challenger experienced. SpaceX will now, 38 years after the Challenger "leak" disaster, institute "double-checking" for leak detection. 38 years seems like a long time to come up with that idea. Hopefully they will pick up the pace in double-checking other already known causes of rocketry failures, although it's not clear that detecting the leak and suppressing the fire would have saved the ship. PS... I recently unpacked some of my old papers and discovered my diploma from the Fort Bliss US Army Air Defense School for Hawk Missile Maintenance. I think that gives me a plausible claim to actually having at least basic credentials in rocket science. And some here will find it just as amusing as I do.