Well arguably in every NASA case, there were private contractors proposing astronomical (pun intended) chances of catastrophic errors, whereas internal NASA est

Well arguably in every NASA case, there were private contractors proposing astronomical (pun intended) chances of catastrophic errors, whereas internal NASA estimates were always expecting far, far greater chance of such error. So there was always this go, go, go mentality. So you can ding NASA for bad choices, which is fair, but there's a private business component in all of that too. It's a public-private venture, space.