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How the space program created a culture of learning from failure

In space, every failure could equal disaster. On Earth, they were priceless gifts.

The Apollo lunar module was a special spaceship in many ways. It was the first - and still the only - crewed spaceship designed just to be used in space. That's why it looks so spindly and gawky. It never had to fly through the atmosphere, so it could be designed with almost pure utility, without the sleekness and protection required to account for atmospheric friction or drag.

But that special quality of the lunar module created a really huge problem: It couldn't be flight-tested before use. The first time each lunar module got a shakedown flight was the moment it was being used in space. It also meant that the astronauts flying the lunar module could only ever learn to fly it using simulators (also designed by people who had never flown lunar modules).

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