Obviously it would have been preferable to be congratulating Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and its founder, Elon Musk, on these pages following the third launch attempt of the company’s Falcon 1 small rocket Aug. 2. Alas, it was not to be, as the vehicle, intended to shatter price barriers that have long kept space off limits to all but a privileged or lucky few, failed to reach orbit yet again.
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