Starship Flight 5: Pessimism Defeated

After much wrangling with federal regulators, SpaceX finally got their booster catch attempt - and, incredibly, nailed it first time.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

- Richard Feynman

When Richard Feynman added these words to the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, he was summing up a criticism of the internal culture at NASA which had enabled that disaster. It was a…