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Originally posted by Sn00py
No, I still think 5000 is a lot. By now it must be a pretty standard procedure. We should know what works and what won't work. Perhaps we should. But the fact is that we don't. There's a pretty consistent 4% failure rate.

There are those in the private sector who are working on this problem. But they aren't ready to launch yet.

SpaceX should be much safer than the 4% failure rate, once they get the kinks worked out of their system.