Musk expects failures, since it's a part of learning and innovating and moving forward. He's more likely to punish someone that sits on dead-center and won't move because of fear.
Victory favors the bold, and NASA isn't well known for bold, these days.
/johnny
It’s a shame too, as I was a huge NASA supporter during the 1960s, 70s and into the 80s.
I still support NASA and some of their endeavors, just not the punitive control, bureaucracy and politics involved.
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SpaceX: Space Station crew likes what it sees in new transport vehicle
The craft made aerospace history Friday by becoming the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to rendezvous and dock with another spacecraft on orbit.
“I spent quite a bit of time poking around in here this morning looking at the engineering and the layout, and I’m very pleased,” observes Don Petitt, a space station flight engineer and the crew member who guided the station’s robotic arm as it grappled the craft for docking Friday morning.
Petitt likened the event to the Golden Spike that symbolized the final link joining eastbound and westbound segments of the first transcontinental railroad line. The spike was driven into that last wooden rail tie on May 10, 1869. “This is kind of the equivalent of the Golden Spike,”
I’m sure you’re aware of this side note.
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SpaceX takes Star Trek’s ‘Scotty’ to the Final Frontier
SpaceX: The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on ‘Star Trek’ were launched to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0522/SpaceX-takes-Star-Trek-s-Scotty-to-the-Final-Frontier
Seem Scotty/Mr. Doohan, was a real life space fan.