re: Explain That Pretext
A typical "office" engineer who thinks you could simulate everything in your lab. The problems that screw you up are the ones that you haven't thought and and haven't simulated for and only learn in field experiment.
You need to get out of your lab and come up here to the arctic sometime to see how equipment works in the field. Debating with you is a waste of time as you have no experience outside of your office and "computer models" to draw on.
The individuals who will have to trust there lives to the equipment you build will be safer if its tested on the Moon as well. However safety is probably just a cost/benefit anaysis to you.