As an institution, the United States Pentagon has come to be known for many things over the years — its transparency, its generosity, its cunning. Consistency is not one of them. In the wake of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's disastrous Starship explosion — the company's third in a row — some are pining for the good old days of tax-payer funded space research under NASA. "Weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago," asked Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge on Bluesky. "Also weren't we like 'ah yeah that was a fail' when the rocket fell apart instead […]