For a fourth time today the new Falcon 1 rocket from SpaceX has failed to launch. The falcon 1 is set to replace Nasa's now retiring rocket and is to aid in lowering cost and raising reliability of rocket flight. Again I bring up the point I have made in the past about the 1st moon landing. From what I have been gathering over the past few years regarding space flight, it is a fairly rigorous and dangerous process...now...in the year 2007. Predictions from the time of the supposed 1st space walk had us flying around in cars and using robots as bank tellers by now. Hard to imagine that we are having such a hard time getting back to the moon when it was already done so long ago, allegedly. Anyway, there was a webcast of the event which allowed me to actually hear them say the words "we have an abort!" and the curses of the launch staff thereafter. Actually it was a little depressing now that I think about. Sucks to be SpaceX right now.
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