Is it really all that different? Saturn I, IB and V and STS were all vehicles outsourced to contractors for design and construction and sometimes operation.

Douglas' (Thor) Delta series launched most US satellites right up until SpaceX's Starlink constellation!

Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them

Linz! His “Perils of Presidentialism” predates Gingrich and 1994; the US started to stop being exceptional.

I don’t suppose you’ve read Herman Kahn’s books on the topic?

For the end of the world, Bell Labs and Western Electric designed and built the original US air and missile defense system.

And for that same end, the nuclear command and control systems ran on Long Lines.

A lot, but maybe that's also a sign of how computers became mature. There's still a bit of a barrier to entry, though!

Brave to risk that!

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