Employees patrol the eight rows of machines, checking socks by hand.

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Every tile that's installed or a modification that's made to any space vehicle is closely monitored by NASA. A NASA supervisor was on hand with a clipboard, checking off various tasks by United Space Alliance engineers.

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These poor folks simply have no time to do much fact-checking or first-hand reporting, and they barely know what questions to ask in the first place.

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