Launchpad single‑point vulnerability

The Baikonur mishap shows how a single piece of ground infrastructure (a crew‑capable pad or service platform) can become a mission‑critical single point of failure for human spaceflight and station logistics. Nations and partners that rely on one hub for crew or propellant risk operational standstills, increased political leverage, and urgent, expensive rebuilds. — This reframes space policy toward requiring explicit redundancy, cross‑partner contingency plans, and investment in ground‑infrastructure resilience to avoid mission and diplomatic crises.