[dragnet2]

It was a test, not a mission launch.

Some here cannot seem to distinguish between a test and an actual mission launch.

Your comment that “rockets are tough” is accurate and why they have what are referred to as, “tests”.

[kingu]

Paraphrase of Musk's tweet, rockets are tricky. And indeed, it wasn't a mission launch, just as someone else would say the rocket failure the other day was not a manned mission, and today's Virgin Galactic is also a test..

There's a reason why we've set a category of difficulty in common language calling it 'rocket science.'