The Long Road to Overnight Success: Reusable Rocket Boosters were Decades in the Making | Semantic Scholar
@article{Brooks2022TheLR,
title={The Long Road to Overnight Success: Reusable Rocket Boosters were Decades in the Making},
author={Rodney Ralph Brooks},
journal={IEEE Spectrum},
year={2022},
volume={59},
pages={20-21},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:248116398}
}In the popular conception of a technological breakthrough, a flash of genius is followed quickly by commercial or industrial success, public acclaim, and substantial wealth for a small group of inventors and backers. In the real world, it almost never works out that way.