I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.
Burt RutanNASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.
Burt RutanNo one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.
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