Falcon 9's safety record would indicate that it is possible to have development cycles that push boundaries and maintain a high reliability production system. W

Falcon 9's safety record would indicate that it is possible to have development cycles that push boundaries and maintain a high reliability production system. With regard to Musk's statements about the relationship between innovation and failure, below is a quote from the linked video about optimization in the development process, a quote that provides a more nuanced view than the pithy quote. Then, try very hard to delete a part or process. This is actually very important. If you’re not occasionally adding things back in, you’re not deleting enough. The bias tends to be very strongly towards “Let’s add this part or process step in case we need it.” But you can basically make “in case” arguments for so many things. And for a rocket that’s trying to achieve, trying to be the first fully reusable rocket…you have to run at tight margins because if you don’t run tight margins you get nothing to orbit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw