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Back when I first started in aerospace, I was working on an experimental satellite instrument that had to be build in a hurry to meet the launch deadline. I was working a double shift, testing my electronics unit when I bent several pins on a 78-pin D-connector. There were two ladies working in the manufacturing area that night and I sheepishly asked them to replace the bent pins in the connector I messed up. They gave me no end of razzing...
"Look at this! We got us a Superman here."
"Boy, you don't know your own strength."
I just had to sit there and take it. If that had been a full-fledged flight program, I would not have been allowed to mate or demate connectors because that required training and certification which I didn't have. Soldering, lead forming, all that stuff required special training and certification.
Compared to all that, the stuff we do is like a blacksmith shop in the Wild West. And somehow, it all works!
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