The crash is valuable by itself.
Examining the wreckage will tell SpaceX lots about structural defects/overbuilt areas.
Edit: SpaceX has invented a vastly better process for innovation. That's what should be scaring the others.
Examining the wreckage will tell SpaceX lots about structural defects/overbuilt areas.
Edit: SpaceX has invented a vastly better process for innovation. That's what should be scaring the others.
Where a more traditional aerospace company would go out of their way to avoid failures at any step, SpaceX embraces them so long as nobody is endangered in the process.