UngaWunga
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The thing is, SpaceX is private. When they blow up a Falcon, Musk doesn't have the CEOs of Blackrock and Vanguard screaming on the phone about their ROI. When Boeing has a billion-dollar setback, there are 30 Senators demanding public hearings to know why their taxpayer dollars are being wasted.
So it's more than a little disingenuous to say the agency that took us from blowing up monkeys on launchpads to walking on the moon in a decade is not capable of learning fast. It's more that they have had both hands chained behind their backs compared to the days when NASA's budget was a blank check and comparing them against private companies still free to operate the way NASA used to.
and musk decided to rush their rocket and launch on 4/20 for the lols...which blew up. I think a lot of high companies succeed despite him.
Starliner launch