⚠ Move-Fast Meets Human CargoHigh threat

The fail-fast philosophy that serves development so well grows perilous as SpaceX carries astronauts, plans to fly private citizens, and operates a constellation the world depends on. You cannot iterate on a crewed flight the way you iterate on a prototype; a single loss of life would be a human tragedy and a business earthquake, inviting the kind of grounding, investigation, and reputational damage that a fireball on a test stand does not. The culture that blows up rockets to learn must hold two contradictory disciplines at once — reckless in the lab, flawless with people aboard — and the pressure to keep moving fast — the pressure of a 167-launch cadence¹ — sits in permanent tension with the caution that human spaceflight demands.