An unmanned SpaceX Starship prototype SN10 explodes on the ground after carrying out what seemed like a good flight and landing.
Space travel will never be easy.
I think as they learn more, the landings and machines will improve, but even if they have 100 perfect missions, there will never be 100% confidence in any rocket mission's success.
Just look at the Apollo 13 mission they were very lucky to get home. Imagine a trip to Mars ?
Just the time it takes to get to Mars all couped up in a can would be enough to drive me nuts... I would need a house in space with comfortable chairs, a bed, and a guitar, and at least enough simulated gravity to feel a sense of up and down without a sideways wobbly sensation. To accomplish this would take a wheel of about a mile in diameter.... so.... until we have that, or until we can make a more advanced gravity device, I won't be going.
Or- If they can get acceleration canceling tic tac coils to work... and a good enough pilot to fly the squirly things... when maybe a trip to Mars could be done in an hour or two, then yeah I'm in.
On the ISS they are able to recycle urine, rinse water, and moisture from the air into pure drinking water, and they make oxygen from water.Where they going to put all the air and water for trip ?