It might be more accurate to say most of the failures were in the earlier days. The Soviets took a "launch early launch often" approach in the early '60s. The U

It might be more accurate to say most of the failures were in the earlier days. The Soviets took a "launch early launch often" approach in the early '60s. The US failure rate was much higher then as well and the successes were relatively simpler things like flybys.