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“If anything can go wrong—it will.” This simple statement of Murphy’s law looms large in the rocket scientist’s consciousness. In the early days of the American space program, there was another saying, “Ours always blow,” which meant that you could count on our rockets to explode every time.
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(2007). Prove Yourself Wrong. In: The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68222-8_22
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