Andrew Chaikin – final presentation at the FAA conference

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Andrew focused on a number of points that have a particular resonance with me. He noted, for example, that NASA has lost the ability to start small and iteratively build up technological capabilities – “If you can’t iterate, you can’t innovate”. Instead, ever since Apollo NASA has repeatedly put forward plans for a huge project like the Shuttle, gotten far less funding than it requested, yet continued on regardless.
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