and even rarer that it doesn’t explode
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The Wright brothers crashed their first flight so the whole thing should have ended there ?
The sensational thing isn’t that an experimental rocket on an unmanned test flight to gather data and evaluate performance to make ongoing improvements to the design ‘exploded’, but that so many of them didn’t.
They have been shooting rockets into space since 1957 and other rockets for hundreds of years before that. So, in 2025 it’s not like the Wright Brothers first flights. Boeing has made planes for many decades but that trust of their reliability and quality has faded too. Bean counters, profits before quality and cutting costs to the max results in a heavy price.
From what I understand, just wait until SpaceX is ready to start sending ships to Mars and need hundreds to thousands of rockets blasting off in pretty quick succession.