00:00Well, let me start by saying that was a rough moment.
00:03Nobody likes that. It was a gut punch for the whole team.
00:07But what we've learned since then is we got really lucky.
00:13Some of the long-lead items in the launch infrastructure were preserved.
00:20For example, the propellant tank farm, all the liquid hydrogen,
00:24liquid natural gas, liquid oxygen, all those tanks.
00:27Those are very long-lead items, and they were fortunately undamaged.
00:31The booster, we had a booster in the integration facility,
00:35which is right there at the launch pad,
00:37and various pieces of shrapnel missed the booster.
00:40There was a lot of good luck in that incident.
00:42You know, in the big picture, kind of what you're saying,
00:46God knows how to appropriately price his goods,
00:50and space travel is hard, and it's worth it.
00:53And so, you know, by the way, by the end of that incident,
00:56at the end of the day that that incident occurred,
00:59within 24 hours, completely spontaneously,
01:02the Blue Origin team, and this is a team of just incredible people,
01:06they were making themselves T-shirts that say,
01:09it's worth it.
01:10Yeah.
01:10Cool.
01:11Cool.
01:12Very cool.
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