“So even if a fire develops, it can't really attack the particularly vulnerable locations like the pneumatic system or the avionics or the engine bay. We want to be in the situation that even if a fire develops, the rocket just keeps going.”

—  Elon Musk

Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)

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