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30.07.2016 в 22:49

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История о Джерри Дойле. Честно сперта с тумблера.
Jerry Doyle: NASA’s Good Luck Charm
On one of the few occasions I had the good fortune to hang out with Jerry Doyle, he told me a very cool story. It’s been 16 years since he told it to me, so I may get some specifics wrong, but it’s worth sharing nonetheless.

Jerry was very, very into NASA. He went to some dozen Space Shuttle launches–and every time he was there, the Shuttle actually launched. We don’t do launches any more, so it’s easy to forget, but launches get scrubbed a lot. If things aren’t optimal, they abort (and, as we know, even when conditions are green across the board, accidents still occur). Jerry went to a enough launches that the fact that the launch went off every time he was present was actually notable statistically.

There came a mission when the Shuttle was unable to launch for various reasons several times in a row. So NASA called him and asked him to come for the next launch window. They explicitly told him that they wanted him there because the Shuttle always launched when he was in attendance. He came, of course–and the Shuttle did indeed launch.

I dearly love this story, not only because it shows that even rocket scientists can be superstitious, but because Jerry told it with such aplomb and genuine glee at being able to be a part of NASA, even as a human rabbit’s foot. R.I.P.

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и я слишком пьяна, чтобы ее перевести. Но она умиляет, риалли.