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The Failure of Launch Pads on the Moon

The biggest crater I've ever seen before this was about 50 centimeters deep, half a meter. This is pushing the experiments to a new part of the parameter space. See that stuff in the bottom? That's probably the material that rained down on Port Isabel. It was the sand that was under the concrete. And we're really worried about launch pads failing on the moon. We've seen a launch pad fail once before.

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