Comment by lmm

> The Beagle landed on Mars and was unresponsive.

The Beagle was the cheapest Mars mission ever (~50 million), and the investigation attributed the failure directly to not having enough money to do things properly. Again, dollars, not decades.

> The last SpaceX test rocket failed to land.

It was a test, an experiment; Musk was describing it as "50/50" beforehand. The mission achieved exactly what it was meant to do.