[FPSPACE] Scaled Composites Explosion

[E.P. Grondine]

Well now, there's a news flash for you: rocket engines sometimes epxplode 
while being tested.

How Scaled Composites engineers could have forgotten this fundamental 
principle, one which the German amateurs acquired with the death of Vallier 
and the explosions of the 1920's, is a great question.

I'm sure it will be discussed in full during the trials to determine damages 
and money payments.

Who all was killed, and what their engineering specialties were, is likely 
to impact Scaled Composites' operations.

For certain, the local New Mexico facilities operators are going to review 
their regulations.

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