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SpaceX's next Starship rocket exploded in South Texas late Wednesday.  This deals another blow to a program struggling to overcome three consecutive failures from a company which appears to be mismanaged.

Elon Musk's self-proclaimed genius in efficiency and innovation is a carefully constructed myth.

Far from being a visionary, his leadership is marked by chaotic mismanagement, systemic failures, and a blatant disregard for safety in his engineering and workplace practices.  As demonstrated by his record of consecutive explosions.

Due diligence is never 'efficient', but it does prevent rockets from blowing up.  Money is saved when rockets do not blow up.


SpaceX's "Fail Fast" Model: A Cover for Incompetence and Waste

Musk's "fail fast, learn faster" mantra is not a disciplined engineering philosophy. It promotes reckless trial and error at the expense of safety and cost-efficiency.

SpaceX has a development process that is riddled with avoidable failures that traditional aerospace firms would never tolerate.  Musk's exploding rockets are multi-million-dollar disasters that could have been avoided with proper engineering.  The NASA waterfall model, though slower, ensures rigorous verification before risking hardware. SpaceX's spiral development skips critical validation steps, saving paperwork by not making any.  But each Starship explosion requires rebuilding entire prototypes, and this cancels any savings from 'rapid iteration'.  The world's richest man, is also the world's biggest spender of your money. 

A spender not of his money, a spender of yours.

SpaceX employees endure brutal hours and unrealistic deadlines.  Musk pushes workers beyond reasonable limits, and he sleeps on factory floors when his bipolar disorder pushes him to do so.  The Musk empire is built on reckless speed, corner-cutting, worker exploitation, and flim-flam lies.  His "fail fast" dogma is an excuse for poor planning.  His leadership is a liability.  Musk dazzles fans with grand visions, but the Musk reality is a trail of broken promises, preventable disasters, and a constant flow of propaganda using words like 'efficiency', A subject which sounds good rolling off a silver tongue, but a subject that Musk really knows nothing about.