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This reminds me of a story where a speaker at a conference was talking about software development methodologies.
They asked the audience, who in the room would get on board a plane built in the way that their company approached software development?
Everyone stuck their hand up.
Then they asked who would stay for the takeoff.
One person stuck their hand up.
Asked why, they answered: "Based on how we write software, I doubt that it would taxi from the ramp, let alone take off."
Let's just hope that Boeing had better systems and processes for building this spacecraft than they did their 737 MAX 9 ...