George Whitesides: “And, you know, this is, because, I don't know, other…”

“And the right thing to do is to make sure we get this done. But the other thing was that commitment. And also, I think, actually, the aerospace community And, you know, this is, because, I don't know, other communities as well, is intrinsically a fairly resilient personality type. I guess, you know, these are people, you know, our team included people who had gone through space shuttle crashes, test flight crashes, a lot of different things.” (12:19–12:29)

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