Bryan Green
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is because it is so incredibly complicated that a battery that overheated, just went a couple degrees past what it normally is for five fucking seconds, almost put an end to the entire thing.
They almost said, we are so nervous that one single battery out of a million in there, just heating up just a little bit,
So one dude on the battery team could just put a stop to the whole thing.
And I guess that's what you have to do if you're in this industry is you have to be able to raise your hand after the Challenger and all the other Columbia and all the other disasters going all the way back to the Apollo missions.
you have to be able to raise your hand and say out loud, I'm not sure my shit's working okay.
And I'm not going to just let this thing take off and put people and hope that it works, but it appears so far it has.
And that is a testament to all that hard work and all those people paying real close attention to the shit that may not say like, if it's me, right.
I get in the car, a sensor comes on and light starts flashing.
I'm like, I got another a hundred miles.
The little yellow light goes on with those people.
And they're like, Capcom, stop the countdown.
It's like, you got to get them out of the shuttle.
And all the procedures that they have, like they were telling- Check, check, double checking.
And they go around the room so many times just to make sure.
And they talked about that battery.