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“When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.”
― Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space