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The Apollo project launched the roughly comparable Saturn V rockets 13 times. None of the launched rockets exploded. None of the launched¹ missions led to any loss of life.
The Saturn V was made at a time when all the computing power on the planet put together was less than a middling-power smart phone of five years ago. The rockets and modules were controlled by computers that had less computing horsepower than an average USB charger. And it was more of an experimental rocket system than anything the Apartheid Manchild's company has put out thus far.
Space Karen's company has launched their pretentiously-named "Starship" system seven times. Four of them ended up exploding, and one of them broke up the launch pad so badly that it endangered life and limb and did damnable violence to a fragile ecosystem with endangered species.
And yet the fanbois trumpet the "success" of a mission that has not yet actually made it to LEO, has not done any of the things it was supposed to have had done in 2022 for NASA's Artemis mission and going back to the moon.
And this turd wants to send people to MARS!?
¹ Important word here. Re-read it before you "well akshuallee" me.