If you aim for the stars and fail, you end up going in circles for all eternity.

If you aim for the stars and fail, others can remember your folly by the smoking crater you leave behind.

Not if you fail by running out of fuel and smashing into Europa.

Hmmm, for 3 minutes?

Other options are available, for instance ploughing into a village because your second stage didn't light, or, well, this: https://youtu.be/mTmb3Cqb2qw?t=16

Most of the "you'll never need programmers again!" things have ended up more "cars-showered-with-chunks-of-flaming-HTPB" than "accidentally-land-on-moon", tbh. 4GLs had an anomaly, and now we don't talk about them anymore.

(It's a terrible adage, really. "Oops, the obviously impossible thing didn't happen, but an unrelated good thing did" just doesn't happen that often, and when it does there's rarely a causal relation between A and B.)

Kind of the opposite lesson of Icarus?