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Maybe parent feels like rocket science is a field that should have few launch failures?
I can't give you a quantitative answer since I'm usually focused on new research rather than what company/nation did said research... but their stuff does seem to blow up on the launchpad more often than NASA's :-)
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inglor_cz • yesterday at 7:15 PM
NASA does not produce any launch vehicles. It produces payloads and buys launch services from others.
Unless you count test artifacts, an actual catastrophic failure of a rocket on a launchpad (or even in flight) has been rare in the last 10 years.
Trivia question. When did NASA last launch a rocket not built by a commercial entity