A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral

Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by dpcx on Thursday September 01, 2016 @03:52PM (#12408332)

While true, NASA was able to have the shuttle program be so successful because of the things that they learned in the previous space programs. This is SpaceX's first space program. Don't compare a "senior" program to a "freshman" program.

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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by vkou on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:20PM (#12409306)

Which is great advice - that should temper everyone's expectations of the firm (Which were sky-high a few days ago, when Musk was promoting his 'flight-tested' reused rockets.)

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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by linkregister on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:12PM (#12414980)

I think this is a false equivalence. Many if not most of the engineers working at SpaceX came from NASA or its constellation of contractors.

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