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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Spacecraft are incredibly complex machines with about a zillion different things that can go wrong. A frighteningly high number of those things that can go wrong are both difficult to immediately spot and can result in explosions.

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