this was the failure of a cutting edge rocket that resulted in no loss of human life. How is it tasteless? I'm personally more saddened by the fact that the ISS is getting schedules pushed back than some billion-dollar company lost a rocket.

I'm very much pro-space exploration, and I thought it was funny. It's just a tongue-in-cheek joking reference as if this was a huge game of lawn-darts.

Lighten up, and stop 'guessing' about what 'camp' people are a part of as part of public discourse. It makes you look rude, presumptive, and (possibly worst of all) wrong.