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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If everything worked 100% as designed and expected, nothing would ever fail, ever.

Unfortunately, designs and expectations don’t often mesh with reality, especially when you have tiny possible issues, defects, or things behaving in ways you didn’t expect. Some of the disasters of the past were due to a faulty part–where you don’t *expect* a part to be faulty.

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