Eli5: “Why do spacecraft keep exploding, when we figured out to make them work ages ago?”

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I know its literally rocket science and a lot of very complex systems need to work together, but shouldnt we be able to iterate on a working formular?

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We aren’t building the same rockets from ages ago. New engineers, designs, and technologies mean many new ways to fail. And we can only predict, calculate, and plan so much for things we don’t know about because we’ve never seen them happen before. This includes novel ways for humans to commit errors.

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