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Anonymous Sat Dec 12 12:49:24 2020 No.12457291 [View]
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https://www.elonx.net/spacex-stories-how-spacex-used-tin-snips-to-fix-a-rocket/

This is a pretty funny story. Right before F9's 2nd launch and the 1st launch of dragon cargo an inspection of the MVac nozzle found cracks at the far end.

No one wanted to delay the mission a month, so:
>Musk had a wild idea: “What if we just cut the skirt? Like, literally cut around it?” That is, what if they trimmed off the bottom as if it were a fingernail?

So they got a pair of tin clippers and did just that. And it worked just fine. Ghetto, bootsrapped spacex best spacex

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