NASA is funded with tax money and failures mean they get called in front of Congress like a child who sharpied the brand new tv. They don’t have the luxury of failure, so they over-analyze and over-engineer everything, to the point that everything they build is reasonably expected to work on the first try.
SpaceX doesn’t have that restriction and so they’re free to blow up as much stuff as they need to. How many Falcons failed along the way to building the safest, highest flight cadence launch vehicle in history?
NASA is funded with tax money and failures mean they get called in front of Congress like a child who sharpied the brand new tv. They don’t have the luxury of failure, so they over-analyze and over-engineer everything, to the point that everything they build is reasonably expected to work on the first try.
SpaceX doesn’t have that restriction and so they’re free to blow up as much stuff as they need to. How many Falcons failed along the way to building the safest, highest flight cadence launch vehicle in history?