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Old December 10th 05, 09:34 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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Ed Kyle wrote:

SpaceX suffered a Merlin engine failure on its Texas test
stand back on September 7, 2005. The additional testing
was presumably with another engine sent to Texas. SpaceX
delayed the Kwaj launch (originally planned for late September)
while this testing was underway, which caused more of the
LOX stored at Kwaj/Omelek to boil off than would have if they
had made the original launch date.

A tangled web, space launch is.

- Ed Kyle


After many launch delays, the black and white Columbia came to be known
as the "Penguin" (a flightless bird).

Maybe it's time to change the "Falcon" to........ (pick one):

-Ostrich
-Rhea
-Cassowary
-Emu
-Kiwi
-Kakapo
-Takahe
-Tinamou
-Moa
-Dodo

;-)

Rusty