Why do we still expect “successful failures” on rocket launches and not just scale up or scale down the same design on successful rocket ships and launch pads to make bigger or smaller ships with more stable structural material?

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Why do we still expect “successful failures” on rocket launches and not just scale up or scale down the same design on successful rocket ships and launch pads to make bigger or smaller ships with more stable structural material?

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Lego, Gundam models, toys, ikea furniture, all come with instructions. Yet it all fks up some how. It’s always that one missing screw or component that is essential to making everything work. There are no second chances in space. Successful failures help find the missing piece.