Yes. I know but a certain poster was talking about dead astronauts due to SpaceX. Wow. Really, should we discount the test to fail of the falcon or the billion dollar starlink, iss missions, lowest cost to orbit by a giant proportion….
Starship will be doing amazing things in my lifetime and I don’t plan on being around that long.
Perhaps I misunderstood ... You seemed uncertain about Crew Dragon; I provided certainty. Apologies for the confusion.
Yes ... SpaceX is performing remarkably well. They have a ewetewb video titled “How NOT To Land an Orbital Rocket Booster” or similar. It’s a potent reminder that engineering success is built upon learning the hard way. Rules of engineering are often written in blood.
To go back more than a century ... Orville and Wilbur didn’t invent powered heavier-than-air flight from nothing, in a societal vacuum. They built upon the learning of others ... some of whom they corresponded with, some of whom were unavailable for correspondence.
As for Starship ... apparently, they lost comms and detonated it with the range safety package. That’s unfortunate ... it appeared to have reached the intended suborbital trajectory.