"CAPE CANAVERAL — Air Force safety officers sent commands to destroy SpaceX's failing Falcon 9 rocket after its launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday morning, but long after a malfunction had already caused the rocket to break apart, officials confirmed Monday."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_safety
"Some launch systems use flight termination for range safety. In these systems the RSO can remotely command the vehicle to self-destruct to prevent the vehicle from traveling outside prescribed safety zone. This allows as-yet-unconsumed propellants to combust at altitude, rather than upon the vehicle reaching the ground.[1]"
"As of 2016, a total of 32 US orbital launch attempts have ended in an RSO destruct, the first being Vanguard TV-3BU in 1958 and the most recent being Cygnus CRS Orb-3 in 2014.[...] Some launch vehicles (for example, the Titan family) have included an automatic destruct system to activate in the event that the solid rocket motors or upper stages separate prematurely; this is separate from the standard RSO system which is activated by manual command."
On page 85 of the paper, they actually point out that the real capital gain is ~0.7-0.9% per year on average (with a huge standard deviation of 8%, since it's very market specific), which seems to agree with the submitted article, but that the rest of the return, 5.33% (stddev: 0.8%) comes from rental yield (of course in the case of your own house that becomes money saved from not paying rent). Those two added together are what give the total rate of return on housing.
I mean, so were Concorde jets...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
Contrast with NASA manned vehicle requirements, which call for a 1:270 chance of loss of crew or loss of vehicle.