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From a space.com thread:
"...Why does NASA need to care about paperwork?..."
Going back to the SR-71 project. Lockheed (Skunk Works,) had hit the unsolvable problem. Nobody had made an airplane out of Titanium before, and they were having pieces shatter when subjected to normal impacts.
Some pieces were fine, some were as fragile as glass Christmas Tree balls. But Kelly Johnson had a paper trail to follow. EVERY batch of metal had had paperwork follow it.
They found that the samples produced in the winter were fine. Those made in the summer were worthless. The City of Burbank added more chlorine to the water in the summer, to combat warm-weather bacteria, and that killed the alloy!
With the paperwork, that everybody thought stupid at the time, the SR-71 was able to be built. Without it, ...end of program.
Edited By BWhite on 1110844313
Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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