In the shooting of SpaceX, people always encountered some cases never heard before. That is sometimes the rocket exploded in the air and Elon Musk still considered it as a success, and all people on the ground watching were clapping hands furiously as if watching Empress of the Pop singing. Elon Musk called it fail fast, learn fast, so that he can really know the limits of that hardware were to what level before explosion.
This had never happened before, no matter in Mercury Project (for 1 crew only), Gemini Project (2 members per flight) or Apollo Project (3 members per flight. Meanwhile, for those accidents said yesterday, I have 2 accidents wished to share with readers. Some accidents are caused by complicated technical problems hard to understand, but some were caused by simple negligence which was a great regret.
As for Moon Landing Project, from 1961 to 1966, there were 10 Gemini Projects for rendezvous testing and completed satisfactorily around the orbit of the Earth. In 1967, started the Apollo Project heading against the Moon. The Apollo 1 should carry 3 crews trying to orbit round the moon first, but as the rocket was mounted on shooting platform, a fire occurred and killed 3 crews on the site before shooting. As I watched the news, I was surprised why there was no fire extinguisher inside the cockpit. I know that the room is quite limited, but even on a bus, train or ferry, extinguishers are compulsory in order to get a license. The capsule was 100% oxygen much higher than atmosphere and need time to depressurized before opening the door. Fire burns quickly in pure oxygen area and they were burnt seriously and inhaled smoke to death. Henceforward, they improved the cockpit safety greatly. The Apollo Project was delayed for 20 months.
Another accident was in Jun 30, 1971. US already had successful landing on the Moon. Soviet Union turned to develop space station in orbit. Three crews died when coming back. That is when helicopter picked the capsule up on the sea and found 3 members were dead. I was surprised to see 3 of them had not put on pressurized suit. It is a common sense that they must put on those suits on shooting and coming back to atmosphere. They can take off in space station. Ultimately, the report said it was due to not putting on the pressurized suit. It is unbelievable that the commander should told every one to do so, and ground control centre should remind them. But quite a regret that it is a simple but detrimental mistake.
Because all these accidents were publicized, so later on, all countries can learn from these experiences including China, Europe, India, Isarel, Korea, Japan …etc. But I asked the AI to list out all fatal accidents and GPT only listed crew member accidents and said China has no fatal crew accidents. It is true, but China had one accident that the rocket shooting up and exploded and kill citizens nearby. Grok listed also this accident which show Grok is smarter for I had not limited them to list out only crew member accidents. GPT has no wrong but Grok is cleverer.
Please mind that 2026 will be an era of quantum computer of OpenAI and GOOG against the space data centre of TSLA and NVDA. I will talk about this later. Anyway, I have already asked the AI to list out the 12 tranches of the Pay & Performance Scheme of Elon Musk and TSLA. What will happen if one or two tranches cannot meet with the target? Anyway, too many stocks wish to buy and too little capital for retail investors. Please use the Christmas holiday to do your research deeper and broader in order to face hurricane of AI and Space Race in 2026.