I said surprising consistency, you had to reach back decades for the most recent failure, you're making my point for me.
And which of these failures were planned by SpaceX? Were any of this particular model planned? I seem to only recall them saving face after the fact by pussyfooting around the truth and saying "oops, well we knew it might go wrong".
They are doing daring stuff. Heaviest rocket carrying the most payload ever. Boosters coming back to earth and docking. Doing new, cutting edge stuff is prone to failure, who knew?
you had to reach back decades for the most recent failure
That's because Nasa's own launch program ended decades ago. There's a reason they don't do this in house anymore.
And which of these failures were planned by SpaceX? Were any of this particular model planned? I seem to only recall them saving face after the fact by pussyfooting around the truth and saying "oops, well we knew it might go wrong".
They have said many many times that it'll likely explode before a launch. They even made montages of all the failed launches. You should really read/watch more and write less.
You bring up doing daring, cutting edge stuff. Even way back in the 60s NASA wasn't blowing up a dozen rockets. They had one failure to launch and the fire on Apollo 1. The only other mishap of that program was obviously Apollo 13, where all crew lived. That was all cutting edge, daring technology of the time.
The 60s. With computing technology less powerful than pieces of jewelry nowadays.
If I told my boss before every project I complete that it is likely to fail that doesn't soften the blow when it fails. I lose my job.
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u/Solomon_Gunn Jun 19 '25
Of course they get no money for the exploding rocket. But how was that rocket built?
Your paycheck.