In 1962, NASA teams debated propulsion like a contact sport. The clash of...

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In 1962, NASA teams debated propulsion like a contact sport. The clash of nuclear, chemical, and electric tech was a turf war. It took 186 experts to find a truce. Real progress is not a quiet, neat eureka moment; it is a loud, messy, and stubborn fight.