At that time they didn't have TV news channels that can repeat the explosion 24 hour a day. Also the space race and cold war was a good shield, if someone compl

At that time they didn't have TV news channels that can repeat the explosion 24 hour a day. Also the space race and cold war was a good shield, if someone complain s/he was accused of being an evil communist spy trying to destroy America. I think in he previos programs they had unmanned missions, but once they reached Apollo they (always?) have to use manned missions because docking was not automated. Once you have persons inside the rockets they should not explode, so you must be extra careful with the design. > because it was already doing the job with no excuses. We will have to wait until someone makes another cheap reusable rocket to know how hard it is to design them without exploding a few of them. The move fast and break think applied to rocket science may be a brilliant strategy or a stupid excuse, but we will not know until someone else try. (I'm not counting the Space Shuttle. It was not reusable, it was expansively refurnishable after month of work.)