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It’s written from a human spaceflight point of view for sure. Old space was (sometimes still is) extremely analysis heavy because everything was too expensive to have it not work. This is the environment in which NASA developed its culture.

The newspace paradigm is downstream of costs coming way down. Now you can afford to iterate a few times - it’s much faster and you learn more by flying and testing against nature instead of recreating the environment perfectly on the ground and refining your analysis to the n’th degree. In this world, a good number of these laws are dated and miss the mark.

The old way is still more true in human spaceflight, because there are people on board. But even there, humans are now passengers with computer pilots, so you can do unmanned test missions that chip away at the old delays.