SpaceX finds cause of failed private rocket launch

"oops"

NASA ... achieved success in these two low-cost missions by rapidly pulling together expertise,

uhhh, that was THREE "low-cost" missions in all

SpaceX plans to launch another Falcon 1 as early as next month.

Who will be the lucky one who pays for this one?

That's pretty sad for the families of the people's ashes that were on board - Can't put a value on that kind of thing.

How many more missions will this clown ruin and how many more people will he kill with his sub standard rubbish. Taxpayers money subsidising private industry failure.

I believe I read elsewhere that only a portion of James Doohan's ashes were to be placed into orbit. Let's hope there are more ashes available and that the wishes of all the deceased can one day be fulfilled.

@creepyD they knew the risks when they offered the ashes up to be sent into space. instead they got a nice release in the waters off hawaii. not a bad place if you ask me.

and while i am not for taxpayer funds subsidising this, i think if they achieve it will be a huge benefit to the space industry as a whole. The wrights made a bunch of mistakes on their designs before they got it right. . .

So what, it had problem. How times do things go right the first(2nd...) time when it's as complex
as rocket science. Big dreams and ideas cost money and will have set backs. If you don't want to risk anything don't do anything and see how far that gets you in life. And the ashes are just ashes its not like real people.

How many more missions will this clown ruin and how many more people will he kill with his sub standard rubbish. Taxpayers money subsidising private industry failure.

As opposed to taxpayer money entirely subsidizing NASA's failures (was that meters or yards -- nah, furlongs)? NASA does some incredible things (despite being a government agency). But it's like Zubrin said, the best way for space technologies to be advanced is for there to be viable economic reasons for doing so, or (unfortunately) viable military reasons. Kudos to anyone who gives it a reasonable shot.

My problem with SpaceX is that they are "selling" this service BEFORE it is in fact ready. If there's one thing I know its R&D. You don't sign off on something until it has performed to spec several times, without a glitch!

Wait wait wait...

So the first time they actually used this rocket they packed it with human ashes, sats and prototype equipment for NASA?

At least the people were already ashes when it took off.

Hello,
SpaceX has a done great and incredible thing. Their success has been progressive and they will get there very soon. In the meantime, we can only take all the learning in good stride and move on. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

In certain job/fields/disciplines you can't afford to have a learning curve, like building the petronas towers or a suspension bridge of 20km after finishing an engineering "diploma" over the internet.
SO, if ya dont have what it takes, get a day job and leave whatever you wanted to do, to the professionals!!!

Well, Ill tell you what, If the rocket carrying my ashes was to fail, Id at least want it to blow up in a magnificent fireball! What a waste...

"Engineers did not detect the problem during testing because it was done at sea level, Musk said."

Umm... is 1.5 seconds a lot shorter at sea level or something?

or let the rocket carrying my ashes drop out of its trajectory and land (more like,explode) in robert mugabe's palace.

The day the Challenger blew up, the people I was working with at NASA, shaken as they were, all agreed they would go up in the next shuttle, regardless. (Too bad NASA didn't let us, frankly, instead of wasting time re-engineering it.)

But the SpaceX rocket? Three failures, no successes? It's a NASA-sponsored project that obviously has serious management problems. Pull the plug.

Why didn't they use an accelerometer measure when the second stage was safe to release?