Space Flight
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The So-Called Sky Crane Landing System
The first person to explain the sky crane landing system to me was not a scientist, it wasn't anyone who had anything to do with a space flight. When they described it to me I thought you've got to be wrong. That's a crazy system. So just tell me about that system. And this is the piece of the puzzle that I love the most and it's the piece that you were in charge of in 2012. The notion of the sky crane is that once we've flown out all the speed we can with the parachute and we go onto rockets.
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