These guys are pretty good at what they do despite the occasional accident. Their accidents just happen to be very spectacular.
I wonder how many here could make the calculations for the Juno spacecraft. Launch a craft out past the orbit of mars where it begins to fall back toward the sun, coming to within a couple hundred miles of the earth like two years later for a gravity slingshot off to Jupiter.
Exactly! Many fail to remember our ramp up to space exploration (I only read about it) but the hundreds of lives lost in first breaking the sound barrier the hundreds of test rockets wasted in perfecting the right calculations...this is exactly akin to that ...why? Because commercially supplied space exploration is in its infancy and will go through its bumps and bruises before it smoothes out