Learning From Space-X NASA & Bloodhound SSC – Legends Do Their Homework!

“Flock and Siemens” @ Bloodhound

By Tom Hasker, Associate Partner, Lighthouse International

Covering the earth quickly carries high risks and high rewards so it’s crucial to be prepared!

When you build things that cover 1 mile in 3.6 seconds or less, you need to know what is going happen if there’s a problem!

For both Space-X developing their reusable rocket systems and the Bloodhound Supersonic Car land speed record team, the year upon year of testing and research is a necessary part of solving the problem as these tweets and videos explain:

Pls RT: When you cover a mile in 3.6 secs, you need AMAZING aerodynamics. See https://t.co/5hnL5mvyB8 @SwanseaUni @DrBenEvans pic.twitter.com/k9GK9P78HQ
— BLOODHOUND SSC (@BLOODHOUND_SSC) February 1, 2017

Prepping to fly again — recovered CRS-8 first stage completed a static fire test at our McGregor, TX rocket development facility last week. pic.twitter.com/QEtKVJ1Jhc
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 1, 2017

Legendary companies and teams know that this research work is needed because when things do go wrong at speed, things tend to go very wrong!! As these tweets demonstrate:

I wanna fly away ? pic.twitter.com/lK5n7NT6gQ
— LUCAS DI GRASSI (@LucasdiGrassi) January 31, 2017

This year marks 50 years since the fatal Apollo 1 fire. #NASARemembers its crew & all who have lost their lives furthering exploration. pic.twitter.com/LhSw0dhr7V
— NASA (@NASA) January 31, 2017

Learning from your mistakes is a key principle in engineering research and development – and in life! For us as people, we can take a legitimate shortcut by learning from the people who have already made the mistakes we could make, and this is a skill that legends have learnt to do very well.

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