A bit of detailed research - not just reading the Guardian - shows that there is WAY WAY more to that story. And your statement, as written, is far enough off to be laughable.

I realize though, that you DO have a hard on for this guy, so...

How far behind is starship?

I know there were delays (2 years?)?

It's tasked with a purpose no design before has ever succeeded and gone to market.
Musk stated going into it that they might not make it.

They look like they are going to make it with what just happened.
The next version is already ahead of this one.

I’ll just leave this here

https://www.nasa.gov/headquarters/library/find/bibliographies/american-human-spaceflight-accidents/#:~:text=This%20pathfinder%20covers%20five%20Ameri can,Columbia%20in%20February%20of%202003.

Did you make it to the second?

Apollo 1 (1/27/67) was a huge success, too.

So success is not new to NASA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uFO6BjWSs

i think the key phrase is "normalization of failure"

if nasa had the same fans as musk, yes, thats exactly what they would be saying. :rolleyes: