Sunday, August 03, 2008

SpaceX Launch Failure

SpaceX's third launch attempt has failed. It looks like the first stage did not separate prior to second stage ignition. As you would expect, that makes for a bad day. I did get a chuckle from the "doubts about private space flight" comment. How many launch failures did NASA have before reaching orbit? This is only SpaceX's third launch attempt. A more relevant question might be how many people has SpaceX killed vs. how many people NASA has killed. But that would probably be considered impolite.

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