It'd actually--the forces just looked almost right for the second landing, but with an abundance of caution, they decided to wait a day and see if things got better.
This is particularly true for the human-centered design process -- empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test -- as outlined by the Institute of Design at Stanford, also known as "the d.school" where, in the interest of full disclosure, I have coached a design course called Sustainable Abundance.