Fireworks and space rockets..it's all pretty much the same. A combustible in a tube designed to power itself skywards. The difference is that space rockets are meant to stay in tact, and fireworks are meant to explode as colourfully and as loudly as possible. So then consider failure: controlled explosions are subject to the occasional failure, so in the same way that you'll light the blue touch paper and stand well back and occasionally nothing ever happens, you will also occasionally end up with a Challenger disaster.
It strikes me that what space agencies perhaps need, are particularly bad fireworks makers...
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