I don’t think anyone who seriously follows the space sector hates SoaceX (perhaps except those with vested interests elsewhere who are being embarrassed) - they’re doing incredible things.

People may hate Musk’s public profile, or some of his Twitter mistakes, or dislike his approach to ‘Full Self Driving’ at Tesla… but let’s not confuse this with antipathy to SpaceX.

I think Blue Origin has appeared from the outside to be pretty safety focused.

Blue Origin had 15 successful unmanned test flights of the New Shepard program before launching Jeff and the other astronauts.

That's a very extensive test launch regime to conduct of a rocket.

Of course Blue Origin is very closed off (especially compared to SpaceX), so it's harder to gauge how much internal weight they put on safety.

A funny thought.

Given - how easy it supposedly would be to find someone to bribe with the inheritance one would get from someone like Bezos and Branson, - how many people work on getting these rockets into space and those men back - how complex and fragile rockets are - how dangerous the whole endeavour is commonly believed to be - that they both came back alive

Can we assume that all these murder mystery tv shows and movies have lied to us all along?

Unless falling victim to convoluted plots to murder rich relatives for the inheritance only happens to the rich but not the ultra-rich?

You would need the inheritee and the engineer to both be willing to commit murder and run the calculus that the money is more valuable than the risk of them going to jail and losing their inheritance forever, which is probably a really bad bet given one of them is a spacex engineer or something and the other is, what, an heir to the bezos fortune?

Silly

And reality isn't a heist movie.

Most heirs are not going to attempt to murder for the money. They normally are already enjoying that wealth. And if the money maker stays alive it just grows even more.

Now even if they have a motive. How are they going to connect to the right engineer? They likely don't have the skills to even identify an employee that could deliberately sabotage the system.

And you likely couldn't do it with just one employee. There's at least one other person reviewing their work. And tons of inspections and tests you'd have to hide it all from. So you'd end up with a heist movie.

That said, the groups that could do things like this are state actors. But then we are talking about a very well funded group that can afford to spend years placing people in key positions. And then we get back to motive. Only state actor that would really want to hold back SpaceX or Blue Origin would be China. But the reaction from such sabotage could go a lot of ways. Not worth the resources.

Why would China want to hold back SpaceX when it's more rewarding to put people inside the company to steal their secrets?

We just got our asses kicked by Syria and, more recently, the Taliban. Even our idiot generals aren't eager for more of that. They'll be able to justify several trillion dollars more in "defense" spending before needing to incite another war. Expect the next freedom-haters to be a somewhat smaller nation, like Grenada.