Hey, haven’t you heard, all us right wing nuts hate Space X ‘cause Musk’s a liberal.
What do we care if he building the biggest, most reusable rocket imagined?
/s
SpaceX is blowing every other payload company out of the water yet it’s common to see FReepers claim that a “fraud”. Go figure.
I just like watchin’ ‘em blow up. And doing controlled landings. For some reason that’s just as good.
What could possibly go wrong?
The pace is considerably slower than what they projected in Jan 2017 though.
Looking forward to the Falcon Heavy. Will be interesting to see what payload Musk chooses to send up on the first test launch.
And of course, 27 engines burning at once.
Great press releases by Musk!
—feels like a long con of the taxpayers from where I am sitting
http://www.spacex.com/missions
“The vehicle was launched a total of five times. Falcon 1 achieved orbit on its fourth attempt, in September 2008 with a mass simulator as a payload. On 14 July 2009, Falcon 1 made its final flight and successfully delivered the Malaysian RazakSAT satellite to orbit on SpaceX’s first commercial launch (fifth launch overall). Following its fifth launch, the Falcon 1 was retired and succeeded by Falcon 9.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1
“As of October 30, 2017 there have been a total of 44 launches of various versions in the Falcon 9 family. Out of these, 42 missions were successful, one mission failed to reach orbit, and one mission successfully launched the primary payload to the correct orbit but failed with the secondary payload. Additionally, one rocket exploded on the launch pad in a pre-flight test; it is included in the list and mission statistics but not counted in launch numbers.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches