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@mark @WowSuchCyber I take your point, but it was nearly 70 years ago. For the first time.

My watch could manage all flight systems for those things, I have more computational power under my stairs than was available internationally, CFD software is *free*. I can machine titanium to 0.002mm tolerances in my garage, and form advanced composites in my living room for a few hundred pounds and some tuning.

The internet provides even us amateurs with just about every resource imaginable.

I don’t even have an engineering degree, but my amateur engineering efforts have resulted in autonomous drones surveying the sea floor in the harshest conditions and immense pressure, and high altitude radio arrays. Heck, I have my work literally IN space on one of the AmSat projects.

So when I think of the depth and breadth of resources and talent at SpaceX, yeah, I tend to be surprised how often they screw this up - given how many decades of lessons they’ve had to learn.

It’s not for lack of skill or expertise. We know this.