Yes. Given their very ambitious goals with this project, they are doing just fine.

The next launch may not fly the full mission profile either, but it will most likely go further than this one.

I think they are striking an excellenet balance between caution and progress. The government (and to a lesser degree big public aerospace companies) are conservative to a fault, taking years or decades of delays in development and spending hundreds of millions (or more) polishing the apple to a fine gloss before daring to light the candle. Why? Because of the bad public optics of exploding rockets, and political/bureaucratic ramifications.

SpaceX history with their commercially operational launch systems bears this out. They literally turned the entire industry on it's ear with low costs and reusable vehicles.

If you don't like Elon, I suppose there's always boeing space systems... taking Max design philosophy to new heights :rolleyes:

Fourteen of the 355 people to ever fly on one of the space shuttles died due to basic engineering inadequacies or operational mismanagement (depending on how you want to define the Challenger out of temperature envelope launch). That's a job (or pax) related STS mortality of 4%. Which, granted, is only one-fourth the mortality of playing Russian roulette one time, but certainly not something that most people would consider to be safe.

So we are moving the goal posts of you absurd argument now, ok got it.

I, nor anyone at SpaceX said anything about people riding one of these test flights. I have no doubt people will be riding on them before the decade closes though.

The plan is to put men on the moon by the end of 2025 using the space x Rocket. They don't have much time.

...and returning them safely to earth.

When President Kennedy said that in the early 1960's, that plan was not a foregone conclusion.

30 astronauts were selected for Apollo. Afterr killing the Apollo 1 crew without their ever leaving the launch pad the program had several mission failures (Apollo 13 for instance) but no further fatalities. Three dead out of 30Apollo astronauts was a 10% mortality. Not as bad odds as playing Russian roulette even once, but even so...

It didn't blow up, dammit!

It was a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".... 😁

I know you said nothing about putting people on board. I said that. You quoted me saying it, brightspark.

No one will get on the god damn vehicle because it's not safe. Call that a god damn success if you will.

The ****ing thing blew up. Go figure.

No, it wasn't unscheduled. Elon said, before the launch, that they would be lucky to make it to stage separation. They fully expected it to explode, and explode, it did.

The plan is to put women on the moon or anyone that’s not a white man. Their mission goals actually say something along those lines.

Well, just saw my first United Aviate commercial. SR-22s huh? Alright! Well, see ya!