Sometimes it comes to pass that en route to achieving breakthrough reliability and mainstream adoption, that a disruptive innovation is brought to its knees by catastrophic failures. When SpaceX and Elon Musk attempted to develop a reusable rocket that could return from orbit on its own power, Falcon 1, so many failures were suffered that Musk nearly bankrupted his enterprises. Subsequently, SpaceX delivered the most widely used and efficient space transport vehicle ever seen. We may be at th...