The US had plenty of vehicle failures too, especially in the early days. Two resulted in fatalities (Challenger,1983 and Columbia in 2003. Apollo 1 was a ground test but it should count too. That’s 17 crew lost. Apollo 13 was a really close call.
Lots of failures and flaws that should have deadlined the vehicles and missions until they were fixed were ignored due to time, political and monetary pressures.
They changed the type of outside insulation so that it contained no CFC's or HFC's. The new insulation proceeded to fall off in big chunks, at the wrong time.