Bob Novella
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So it's like a pop-up tent type of situation.
They quickly put this thing together, they get inside of it, and it gives them much more protection from anything going on that has to do with solar radiation.
That's interesting.
I wonder why they just can't build that into... Because it takes up space.
I mean, I'm sure that they have a list of every single thing that's on there and the engineers on the ground would be in a similar situation if there was an emergency.
But I felt like it was much more of a like open this up and move this thing to the left type of fix.
You know, it didn't seem to be a major problem.
But Bob, I'm sure they're always capable of doing some heavy lifting when it comes to being creative and figuring out, you know, solutions to problems that they didn't already figure out how to fix.
But that wasn't the case here.
Before launch, you guys might have noticed that the rocket had a helium flow problem, which they fixed before the launch, of course, took place.
This was simply a displaced seal between the ground to rocket quick disconnect.
It's basically a pipe that feeds the rocket helium and the flow wasn't happening.
And then engineers figured it out and they fixed it quickly.
But of course, NASA is also now turning that into like a we have to figure out why that happened.
And, you know, they're 100 percent error correction here with NASA.
Now, the heat shield.
The heat shield's a big guy here.
This is a big player.
It was talked about a lot.
I talked about it a lot.