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Engineering's Bryan Schmidt talks about the explosion of SpaceX’s Starship

MEDIA | March 17, 2025
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

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The Daily Mail: Bryan Schmidt, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case School of Engineering, said that the explosion of SpaceX’s Starship doesn’t decrease the likelihood that the mission to bring astronauts back from the International Space Station will succeed. Schmidt explained that the Dragon capsule's safety and capabilities “have been proven repeatedly, which is the best sort of guarantee you can get in spaceflight.”