SpaceX's Starship crashed.  Was that just the other day?   Yes,  but there have also been others. Read this article in Space.com that was published 5 days ago entitled,  Every SpaceX Starship explosion what Elon Musk and his team learned from them .  At the site you can watch them all.   Time magazine explained why another explosion is no big deal .   Well, if you fail, try, try, again.  That apparently is Musk's attitude.   The U.S. space program began ignominiously . In 1955 the U.S. announced plans to put a satellite into orbit, targeted for the International Geophysical Year in 1957-58. But the Soviet Union on 23October1957 placed Sputnik 1 into orbit. Embarrassed, we swiftly tossed together on 6December1957 our first package, called by Nikita Krushhev as a grapefruit, and on live television, we saw the the effort rise 4 feet, fall over and explode.   Our grapefruit landed in bushes near the pad and began transmitting signals.  ...