Elon Musk: “If Something Goes Wrong With a SpaceX Rocket, It’s Fundamentally My Fault

Here's Elon Musk explaining that he feels personally responsible when something goes wrong with a SpaceX rocket.

“I'm actually the chief engineer of SpaceX, so I've signed off on pretty much all the design decisions. And so, if there's something that goes wrong with that vehicle, it's fundamentally my fault. So, when I see the rocket, I see all the things that could go wrong and the things that could be better. And the same with the Dragon spacecraft. It's like other people will say, oh, this is a spacecraft or a rocket. And that looks really cool. I'm like, I've like a readout of these are the risks, these are the problems. That's what I see. So, it's not what other people see when they see the product.”

Interview with Lex Fridman, December 28, 2021