Failure IS the desired option while developing.
In the 50's the Atlas rocket had 5 officially known failures before it reached orbit with the Comsat satellite. And this is not counting all the non-disclosed failures during its secret development as the ICBM it originally was intended to be. And I bring up the Atlas first because it was the first major rocket development in the US, and second because like starship, it had a pressurized steel shell. Starship is of course orders of magnitude more complicated, but so is our capacity to build rockets.
All of these flights are incredible successes that show a VERY RAPID development process, with efficient real-life testing, and not overly expensive lab testing - the kind the existing pork-barrel funded space industry loves.
Many of the upcoming flights will continue to fail before Starship and Boster return safely and precisely to earth. And I am sure everybody at the FAA understands that perfectly. The ones that don't want to understand are those colluded with the legacy space industry, that have every interest to retain their unproductive jobs, and delay Starship reaching maturity.
Interesting to know how Bill Nelson has changed sides, now that he realizes the fight with China is on :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
