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by reddog 3832 days ago
Better?

For those of you scoring at home, SpaceX is 1 for 4 on soft landing with spectacular landing failures for CRS-5 and CRS-6. CRS-7 exploded on the pad at launch.

The Apollo program sent 8 missions TO THE MOON AND BACK with only one failure. Everyone returned from every one of those missions and nothing exploded.

If you were going into space, who's rocket would you rather be sitting on top of: NASA's 1969 Saturn 5 or Elon Musk's 2015 Falcon 9?

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Apollo also had an on-pad failure that killed three men.