Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by WalterBright on Thursday September 01, 2016 @09:38PM
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The Mercury rockets had a lot of catastrophic failures before the first manned launch.
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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by reddog on Friday September 02, 2016 @01:03AM
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Fair enough. According to Wikipedia of the 26 Mercury program missions there were 6 pre 1962 Mercury program launch failures before the 6 successful manned missions. 5 of the 6 failures were test flights without payload.