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79 - A Wake of Creative Destruction

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The Landing Legs Are All There, Right?

There are 12 attitude control engines and five main engines. So there should be 17 rocket engines, plus I guess any flight spares. Do you want to guess at how many engines I laid my eyes on? Is 17 per vehicle? That's the design. They were running tests on that actively so that when it comes back in, they can immediately start reattaching everything. All the payloads and the decks that those go on were there still. The avionics that would go back inside the vehicle were all wired up.

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