re: SpaceX Starship Flight Test 3 | B10 crashes in Gulf, S28 burns up during reentry

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That's why they're not putting lives at risk.

Are you familiar with the Falcon 9?

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Yes. But my point still holds. What were talking about here is a fundamental culture shift in the way NASA did things vs how Musk is doing things with SpaceX. Nasa didn't have the luxury of automated flight plans, gobs digital data downloads and video uplinks. Their stuff had to work right the first time or astronauts would die. so they overengineered everything and had contingency after contingency in place. And that worked really well until Apollo 1. Apollo 1 made them double down on the process until Challenger. But as I said, Challenger wasn't really an equipment failure it was a command and control failure.

I think my perspective comes because I was alive before men walked on the moon. I've seen what our space program can do. As I said, SpaceX's achievements are amazing and beyond what many countries can do. But I can say that and still disagree with the philosophy of how they are testing their vehicles.