Monday, March 27, 2006

SpaceX Falcon 1 Launch Failed -- 8:48 am CST, Update by The Master

According to the SpaceX website, a fire in the first stage caused the maiden Falcon 1 launch to fail after 28 seconds of powered flight. This failure will be investigated by the Fed, and hopefully they will resolve the problem and launch another Falcon 1 within 6 months.

I hope they get this fixed, and get a huge success on the next launch. Privatly funded space flight looks to be about the only chance of anything exciting happening anytime soon.

A.T. Hun comments: I believe that the folks who said that they could do this better and cheaper than NASA are now learning that it is much harder than they originally estimated.

The Master comments: I don't think anyone ever doubted that. But if you don't need to support a massive entrenched beaurocracy in order to launch flights, in the end it WILL be cheaper. Space flight is certainly not easy for anyone, though.

News for 03/27/2006

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