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I would say it’s in between. It’s always 100% better to lose an engine in a test where no lives are at risk.

But to compare the loss to how SpaceX loses rockets is not quite the same. SpaceX is built to iterate on it’s rockets in a way it can much easier handle a test failure. Blue origin is much more traditional space development where it can actually be much more impactful when a failure happens. See what stevecrox is saying above.

Double whoosh. It’s your typo. You called it “Treads” but it’s “Threads”. Thus the shoe joke (which have treads).