Testing Leads To Failure, And Failure Leads

America Was Good Enough To Make A Small Compact Lighter Weight Nuclear Weapon. The Russians Still Had These Big Clunky Heavy Ones, So They Had To Build The Big Boosters In The Arm's War, So Now All Of The Sudden Russia Could Take Off The Shelf And Put Into Orbit Much Heavier Things Than We Could, So That's Why They Had The Original Leadership.

By 1931, After A Few Years' Experience Of Flying Scheduled Airlines, Those Planes Were Operating At Roughly 600 Times The Safety Of The Space Shuttle. I Look At Safety Not In Terms Of Fatalities Per Passenger-mile, But When You Get In And Close The Door, What Is The Risk Of Dying On This Flight?

Usually The Wacky People Have The Breakthroughs. The Smart People Dont.

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.

We'll Go Back To The Moon By Not Learning Anything New.