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Dome: Rationale for the Dome:
"its own alloy. We began designing the alloys with our final part and making just enough of that metal in the shape of the part as the end product. No machining was necessary.
(These are the kinds of things I know and I know Forrester doesn’t know.)
“And so we have been make thousands and thousands of different kinds of alloys with absolutely unique functions: you couldn’t get man into space if you didn’t. The program at Cape Kennedy–one of the worst problems they had there for months and months was very conscientious scientists and engineers saying, ‘I’m not going to leave this; I’m going to do this myself.’ They were so excited about it, the risk to the human beings out there. And they found those men could not do it as well as the instruments. So what they should do is to make the instruments themselves approximately infallible-- and have a number of standbys to check those instruments. They finally got to make the instruments so well that they were able to control the process all the way through.”
