The problem with this approach is that you don’t get anything for the added risk. We could decide to keep trying. That is, build a rocket, put people on it, sen

The problem with this approach is that you don’t get anything for the added risk. We could decide to keep trying. That is, build a rocket, put people on it, send it up, and repeat until one reaches the moon without exploding. That might get us to the moon faster, but it doesn’t improve our knowledge base much faster than carefully managed testing with carefully managed risks. If we get to the moon while taking a big chance, that doesn’t mean we get to cross off the things that could have gone wrong, but didn’t, as solved.