These aren’t the usual failures, these happened during experimental testing. The commercial hardware was unaffected.

Sending a robot to Mars. A human would cost hundreds of times that much.

Not abandoned, just closed for a few seasons because of a project linking it with another one.

In SpaceX’s Dragon V2.0, critical operations are done automatically, important operations have physical backup buttons and the rest can be done via touchscreen displays (and there isn’t really a lot of those other actions since it is designed to be mostly automatic).

This has to be the most stupid clickbait title I’ve read all day.

Having your sailors disarmed and kneeling down with their hands above their heads, on their own ship, is pretty much the definition of humiliation in military terms.

And guess what Kerry’s response to this humiliation was?

The struts failure was in the second stage, so first stage testing with a mass simulator in place of a second stage would not discover the problem. I agree with everything else, though.

Half of an F-35?

Safe haven? So all those countries between Syria and Germany are not safe? What a load of bullshit.

Are you aware that you missed three zeros there?

Somehow the author forgot to mention perhaps the most important thing: by having its three main engines stowed aboard, the Shuttle had far more reusability than Buran. Buran required a brand new, expensive huge rocket with every launch. The shuttle only required a new tank, refurbished main engines and refurbished and…