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In response to "Firefly, another rocket company, had a flight today that fared poorly. -- (link)" by TWuG

We had a customer in the store today who was telling us he had worked for McDonald Douglas on the Atlas rocket. He explained how they were bolted to

Posted by Meg (aka Mojave) Sep 2 '21, 20:09

the launch pad held by nuts that exploded at the point of ignition. He was responsible for making the nuts.

The story then morphed into dirty jokes about explosive nuts ;-)

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That's still how they do it. -- nm - TWuG Sep 2, 20:31 1
- Yup, but it was fun hearing it from somebody who actually made the bolts. He was quite a character. -- nm - Meg Sep 2, 20:36

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