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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If this is related to the SpaceX crash, I think the more pertinent question is – is this the effect of privatizing something that should not be looked at as a means of profit, thus cutting corners etc? Because let’s be real that’s what it is for him.