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The man craft for the initial flight is a dummy and burns up in the atmosphere.
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That seems like kind of a bad precedent to set...j/k
I just got through reading Gene Krantz's "Failure is Not an Option" and I am just amazed at how close we were to complete disaster or failure so many times during the early space missions. I sure hope that today's missions aren't flying that close to the edge all the time...