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Innovation's Essential Ingredient: Failure
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August 7, 2020

All the great successes of U.S. scientific and technological innovation start with some failure. SpaceX — the first private company to launch NASA astronauts into space — didn’t put an orbital rocket booster into space on the first try. That’s the beauty of scientific and technological research: there are endless possibilities to learn from mistakes.