I wouldn't agree that NASA had "many failures" like the article is claiming. They had setbacks, sure. Apollo 1 is the most well known but Gemini 8 also counts.
But those were in a time when NASA was doing completely unprecedented things and setting spaceflight records left and right. Of course things are going to go wrong occasionally. It's a far cry from today when NASA hasn't put a human into space in over a decade.
I wouldn't agree that NASA had "many failures" like the article is claiming. They had setbacks, sure. Apollo 1 is the most well known but Gemini 8 also counts.
But those were in a time when NASA was doing completely unprecedented things and setting spaceflight records left and right. Of course things are going to go wrong occasionally. It's a far cry from today when NASA hasn't put a human into space in over a decade.