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Is there any rocket-builder without a history of blowing things up?
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Obviously not. Blowing things up is the reason for rocketry to exist and its historical basis.

A fun fact about SpaceX:

Remember our esteemed national American hero, and spiritual father of SpaceX, Wernher von Braun.

Wernher wrote a book about Mars referring to "The Elon", an imaginary Mars governing body.

The father of Elon Musk claimed that Elon's name came from there.

Well at least, that's what he claims. Reality doesn't matter if you have billions and power. History can be rewritten.

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Saturn 1 and 1B didn't have failure I think ? Tho that's just one model
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Why did you feel the need to post this comment?
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>Why did you feel the need to post this comment?

Maybe parent feels like rocket science is a field that should have few launch failures?

I can't give you a quantitative answer since I'm usually focused on new research rather than what company/nation did said research... but their stuff does seem to blow up on the launchpad more often than NASA's :-)

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NASA does not produce any launch vehicles. It produces payloads and buys launch services from others.

Unless you count test artifacts, an actual catastrophic failure of a rocket on a launchpad (or even in flight) has been rare in the last 10 years.

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Not for crew carrying craft.
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I really detest Musk but Dragon has had a really good track record.
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Look on the bright side, at least you're not riding in Boeing's capsule.
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... and returning is mostly by gravity.
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