I'm surprised that people are losing their minds over a few explosions as if the US government didn't blow up hundreds of rockets in order to get a working product.
The risk angle is that this isn't about national security or a government enterprise. This is commercial - you can't spend your money if you're dead.
How can you be confident that, given the circumstance, their lower-cost competitor, the one pushing iterative startup style move fast approach, has the same extensive safety checks AND had zero hardware bugs in 10 or so years?
Which one do you think the astronauts want to ride on?
Starship = regressing every flight.
This isn't hard to parse man.
