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When programs have to work-- lessons from NASA
DavidPhillipOster14y20

This very system was responsible for the failure of the first shuttle launch. It turns out that there was a 1/64 chance that the clocks in the primary system and the clocks in the BFS would fail to synchronize on startup, and the very first scheduled launch hit the jackpot: the clocks didn't sync, and NASA had to scrub the mission, and spend weeks figuring out what went wrong.

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