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  • I don’t think you fully understand the problem of Lunar or Mars colonization, why they made the decision on their strategy, and what the purpose of this testing phase is.

    For that launch, they were testing booster orientation strategy for re-entry, craft response to missing heat tiles in certain locations, and the deployment mechanism for satellite launches. The failures mean more than the successes because you learn more in failure.

    Are you expecting them to do things that have never been done before and have flawless tests? The Apollo and Gemini program had tons of failures and 6 deaths. Starship has had a ton of failures(most caused by pushing limits just to see what happens) and 0 deaths.

    I get it, Elon is bad so fuck everything he touches, but there are teams of brilliant people who are actually doing the work at SpaceX and they are doing great.