I hope so too. One thing that occurred to me watching the videos again this
morning (they're available from the SpaceX site and on YouTube) is how much
oscillation was induced by staging. It was as if one of the pneumatic
pushers stuck or another pushed too hard. Clearly SOMETHING upset the
orientation of the vehicle pretty severely. Same thing (to a lesser degree)
with fairing separation. That seemed to get settled down pretty quickly
after second stage ignition, but the oscillations started up again (probably
unrelated) within a minute or so. You can watch the engine gimbaling further
and further in a circular motion as it chases the trajectory and fights
whatever the upset was.

Too bad it didn't make it to orbit but this was still progress.


Well, someone in this (or similar newsgroup) had said years ago that it
was high time for some space agency or company to start blowing rockets
up again. Like NASA did back in the late 1950's.... Looks like someone
is doing this now.