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What adage traces to a 1949 rocket-sled test at Edwards Air Force Base, where a set of strain gauges had been wired backwards and read zero, prompting an engineer's grumble about his assistant that the project's lead, Colonel John Stapp, later repackaged at a press conference as a philosophy of planning for every possible failure? (Two words: 7, 3 letters)
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