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I feel like they need to go the SpaceX route and build dozens of these things and just launch them with the expectation that most will fail, but they learn from each failure to improve the next ones.



Not even SpaceX is going to test launch when there are obvious issues.


Leak was on launch tower side, no?

8-inch quick disconnect hoses have to be really gnarly to do anything with.


Do you think they would have learned something worthwhile by proceeding with the launch?


The worst case would at least yield data from an incontrovertibly true-to-life, no faking, test of the Launch Abort System:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/launch-abort-motor-for-or...




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