It's not "extremely vital", it's just how NASA has been doing things for a good while.
Sometimes ultra perfectionism makes sense.
Sometimes you can aim for an 85% mission success rate and launch 5 probes for half the price a decade earlier.
…Which NASA also does.
That’s the helicopter on Mars, and the first Starship mission.
Which 85% success rate space mission did you pull off?
So you agree with me that it's viable, great.
I guess I should have been more clear that the perfectionism is how NASA almost always operates these days.
> the first Starship mission.
Not NASA.
> Which 85% success rate space mission did you pull off?
What's with this hostility?
All I said is that it's not extremely vital. I didn't even say NASA definitely did anything wrong, just that there are options.
It's not "extremely vital", it's just how NASA has been doing things for a good while.
Sometimes ultra perfectionism makes sense.
Sometimes you can aim for an 85% mission success rate and launch 5 probes for half the price a decade earlier.