No worries! I wasn’t familiar with these launches offhand myself so your post piqued my curiosity leading me to look the history up myself. And you weren’t far off - if the original launch failure hadn’t occurred, it’s entirely likely that the second launch failure would have been lethal and possibly even more other launches besides that one. Safety and reliability is a moving target but is always worth investing in because it also helps drive costs down and reduces failure modes that may not even be detectable or predictable due to black swan events.
