Just look at this text attempting to pass itself off as serious analysis of SpaceX.

> Since its heady days during the Apollo program, NASA has steadily become an agency filled with checkers, rather than doers... Part of the magic of SpaceX is that it's filled with doers, with relatively few checkers

I used to work there and while I don't have the best things to say about that part of my life, this is absolutely true.

SpaceX, whatever you think of its CEO, is chock full of people whose brilliance glows in the dark.

When the average NASA project is about a thousand percent over budget and fifteen years behind schedule, that's a very polite way of putting it.

You blow up a spacecraft full of people and you might get into the habit of second guessing yourself too.

The spacecrafts not full of people have the same problem. I don't know how you can look at something like the JWST, which was awarded to TRW as an $824 million 7-year development project and became a $9.7 billion 20-year project and not think someone should be in prison.

NASA is a prisoner to politics. Anytime it embarks on something there are 3 possibilities - success, failure and continuing to work on it. The first two end up forcing everyone to move on from a status quo that was the creation of time and effort that made the majority of interested parties happy.

Is that wrong?