Sometimes things go wrong… it’s all a part of the process. In my own experience, things blowing up is an all-too-common part of the program… IF you are actually trying to make progress.
NASA Moon Lander Prototype Explodes in Test Flight
Morpheus is an Armadillo Aerospace product… about the smallest of the small-company projects that has attained a notable level of success.
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In a way, watching NASA test something and have it blow up is refreshing. “Failure is not an option” seems to have become something the NASA culture has taken to heart since… well, since Challenger. But the thing is, “success” is not “lack of failure.” You can attain a lack of failure by Not Trying. And far too often, that has seemed to be the approach: either the hard stuff was avoided, or so loaded down with bureaucracy that the effort would simply collapse under the weight of it all. That allows people to be busy without risk of failure. But it also prevents the risk of success.