[danson]

Please don't let these rather aggressive comments from Ruminator and others stop you commenting.

You put forward perfectly reasonable observations and it is frustrating when someone tries to silence others using the appalling Credentials Fallacy.

It is perfectly logical to say at the macro level our "take risks, move fast" strategy will produce more failures, whilst at the micro level being very disappointed at each failure.

Now, if this was a manned mission with life at stake I would expect the risk approach to be modulated accordingly. But even so, astronauts are not civilian passages and even they knowingly embrace flying at high risk. It would be interesting to know how (and if) SpaceX has approached derisking manned flight. Because the PR from blowing up humans is not good whether you're NASA or a private company.