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T+148: Gerst to SpaceX, and Why Landing is Part of Mission Success
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:20:31
Publish Date: 2020-02-19 16:23:42
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Long-time head of human spaceflight at NASA, Bill Gerstenmaier, has joined SpaceX as a consultant, but everyone is excited for the wrong reasons. And SpaceX missed a booster landing on their most recent Starlink launch, which prompted a new round of debates over whether booster recovery is part of mission success or not.

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