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Let me know when Starship makes it to the moon. Apollo got there after 2 launches. and only had 1x problem and everyone got home.

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Launches are irrelevant. Much more useful metric is "total $ spent on the program before it makes it to the moon", not launches.

That's funny, I count about 20 Apollo program launches before anyone went to the moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions

And of course Apollo 1 incinerated it's entire crew.

Seems like you're only aware of the highly publicized successes and not the difficult development history.

What else might you be unaware of?

Peace to the men and families of Apollo 1.

Sorry Apollo 1, 4, 5 and 6 were unmanned, 7 got men to LEO, 8 orbitted the moon and 9 landed Neil and Buzz.

Starship is up to 15 and is not man rated nor has it achieved a moon orbit or moon landing.

Which is the more successful ?

So you're leaving out SA-1 through 5, AS-101 through 105, AS-201 through 203, QTV, Pad Abort Test 1 and 2, A-001 through 004, and the Mercury and Gemini programs before them to be intentionally deceptive? Or... just disrespectful?

> Which is the more successful ?

Who thinks like this? Who sees what I just saw and has this thought? A wasted opportunity for some wonder and joy.

The Apollo 1 crew begs to differ.

Also, Apollo had Gemini before it and Mercury before that. It was an iterative process.

It's wild that Dunning–Kruger extends to rocket science and astronautics.

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