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Space X, Close, but no cigar
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30752515 The company CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the booster hit the platform hard. "Close, but no cigar," he added. Well personally I wouldn't want a cigar even after a full success but hey Elon, if you want one you deserve it. Alain Fournier |
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Space X, Close, but no cigar
On 11/01/2015 2:47 AM, Alain Fournier wrote:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30752515 The company CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the booster hit the platform hard. "Close, but no cigar," he added. Well personally I wouldn't want a cigar even after a full success but hey Elon, if you want one you deserve it. Alain Fournier At least he didn't embarrass himself by trying to spin it. Sylvia. |
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Space X, Close, but no cigar
On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 6:01:10 AM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 11/01/2015 2:47 AM, Alain Fournier wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30752515 The company CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the booster hit the platform hard. "Close, but no cigar," he added. Well personally I wouldn't want a cigar even after a full success but hey Elon, if you want one you deserve it. Alain Fournier At least he didn't embarrass himself by trying to spin it. Sylvia. True but also to his credit he did try to manage expectations before the event with his 50% figure. Privately I must presume those within SpaceX must have felt the odds were better than a coin toss or why bother with the attempt? Which leads to another interesting observation. Actual trials are proceeding ahead of Grasshopper 2, i.e. F9R-Dev 2 which is supposed to be testing at White Sands. Some have remarked at forums elsewhere that SpaceX has made a strategic decision to go ahead with experiments on flight hardware rather that await further testing on a non-flight prototype in the desert SW. Seems logical given the low risk actual testing on flight hardware induces. That is, for those flights where the recovery hardware is not a significant enough penalty to preclude using it. Dave |
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Space X, Close, but no cigar
On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 8:57:37 AM UTC-5, Jeff Findley wrote:
Unfortunately, the empirical evidence suggests that the press caters to the Bobberts of this world. Jeff -- Back in the day I gave AvWeek a lot of credit for never reporting speculation on airline accidents. Instead they waited and published reports abstracted from the actual NTSB transcripts. Took months, but not misleading... Dave |
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