[ Ссылка ] I mean I spent a number of years when I first learned about this just asking people- okay tell me what's wrong with this? Tell me why it's not the greatest thing since sliced bread?
Kirk Sorensen:
Because really, I'm not a nuclear- I wasn't a nuclear engineer back then. I didn't want to get involved if it wasn't important.
I wanted someone to come and say, oh we did this and this and this and it totally did not work out.
That would have been simple.
I'd be like, okay, fine.
I'll go back to doing my space things.
But the fact that- they didn't say that.
And they said that-
This was a great idea. We really should have done it. That stuck in my-
That stuck in my craw for a long time.
Joe Bonometti and I would talk to each other at NASA.
And it almost tormented us.
I think it really did literally torment Joe. That we weren't working on what we felt was the most important thing.
