The key point is that you&#x27;re evaluating both companies TODAY, and they&#x27;re at different points in their evolution. The fact that ULA&#x2F;etc. had failures in their infancy is fairly irrelevant because that&#x27;s the distant past - the fact that SpaceX had failures in its infancy is highly relevant because they&#x27;re still IN their infancy.<p>The &quot;pass&quot; on quality&#x2F;success is for things that happened in the distant past because they&#x27;re less relevant to current performance, not some strange pass for anything that happens &quot;during infancy&quot; regardless of when that was.