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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Space x have not had one of their rockets fail outside of test flights in ages which I think is really impressive.

but either way rocket science is hard. everything is all high temperatures and high pressures the materials science is still catching up.

Making rockets is expensive. so getting a chance to “mess around with stuff” is not possible. SpaceXs great idea was to have enough money that allowed them to fail loads of times and get it right

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