When designing the launch vehicle, how is it tested to make sure it would withstand space travel?
That’s a very good question, Taylor. We get a lot of information from different sources. The first thing we do to design a launch vehicle is, we use a lot of the old flight history. We’ve been launching rockets now for over 20, 25 years, and we’ve learned a lot throughout the history on how these rockets operate and we know how to test them to their limits. The first thing we do when we design a rocket is, we look at the flight history and all the things we’ve learned up until now. Then we usually go ahead and do an extra analysis and additional design to bring the new technology and incorporate that into the rockets. Then, a prototype is built: structural prototypes, computer prototypes, engine prototypes are built, and all these components are tested as an individual unit and as a system. For example, the structures of a rocket, we build them and put them through a lot of tests. We try to crush them and apply loads to them, the kind of loads they would see during launch. Rocket engin
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