Over the past year, we've seen a variety of different commercial missions that do things I wouldn't necessarily consider successful. We've seen lunar landers unintentionally practice gymnastics by standing on their heads and flipping over sideways. We've seen starships blow up in a variety of different ways. Yet somehow these kinds of weird failure modes keep getting labeled successes after the fact “because data has been collected.” I would argue that there are a lot of times when collecting data is insufficient for declaring something as a success. This is where the iSpace list of...
