&quot;blow it up&quot; was an example of a thing that &quot;could not make sense&quot; for rocket science as a quote. I also did not know (and currently do not know) of significant rocket explosions or failures that didn&#x27;t result in the loss of human life, sadly.<p>Looking at the list here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...</a> I&#x27;m guessing Soyuz 33, STS-1 and a few others would have worked, but any of those would have brought back similar images, whether the space shuttle image was of a complete one or from the challenger explosion, a failure in rocket science reminds you of any of those you have seen; car crashes and airplane crashes are likely the same.<p>Then again, it&#x27;s possible the whole slide is in bad taste. I wanted to convey what the &#x27;let it crash&#x27; stuff felt to me the first time I heard it, and Challenger&#x27;s disaster felt both higher profile and more distant in our collective memory than any random disasters I could have used.<p>I could probably have avoided discussing the topic entirely, but I hoped that the context around it where I think it would obviously be a bad idea to have &#x27;blow it up&#x27; as a rocket science motto would save it. It possibly failed.