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    Another explosion and fireball after a failed space landing mission and the employees erupt in cheers anyway like a deranged cult.

    WTF?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6…

    Nasa used to fly astronauts to the moon and back in the 60's including the salvaging of the Apollo 13 mission and the engineers and scientists showed less fanfare.

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