Can u trade now <| sep |> Comparing SpaceX failures with serendipity is wildly missing the point though . It would imply that the failed landings were some unforseen result with unexpected consequences . If there ' s one thing they were not , it ' s that . SpaceX has always been upfront about how hard it is to land the boosters and that failure was always an expected outcome , especially with some of the more tricky sea landings . The clue lies within the idea that with being prepared for failure , one is well set up for figuring out what went wrong and learning from it . The same mistake can be prevented next time . And this is why the SpaceX failures weren ' t really failures . They were expected steps needed to be taken to reach their goal . I ' m actually surprised it took them as few iterations as it did . Mainstream media doesn ' t seem to understand this .