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SpaceX have had their fair share of issues as well, such as the whole “launch abort test blowing up the entire capsule” thing. Space is hard…

• imglorp 7y ago
  It's not about blowing stuff up. Everyone blows stuff up in aerospace. It's about engineering culture: learning from everything, folding back into product and process, and improving every revision so that failure never recurs. It's the only way to make money in that business. Boeing used to be that culture, but has abandoned its 100 years of wisdom. Now, instead of learning from a mistake, they use marketing, blame, and PR to steer the balance sheet, not the product. They try to influence regulators instead of physics. And holy cow, this is a long list of incidents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
  • Swenrekcah 7y ago
    Just to add for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Airbus_A320_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident... By eyeballing the list the 737 has roughly 2-3 times the incident count. Both families have ~10k units produced according to wikipedia.
    • jiofih 7y ago
      Total years of operation is significantly longer for Boeing though.
• robkop 7y ago
  I may be misremembering but if I recall correctly SpaceX hasn't had a failure in a launch abort test. Only in a static firing test (in regards to dragon 2).
  • foobarbecue 7y ago
    Correct, it was a vibe test with superdracos running well beyond expected operating conditions.