the history of rocket development is replete with failures and very few successes.
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The history of rocket development is one which is replete with failure and where there are very few successes. We hope to be one of those successes, but something that I want to make sure everyone's aware of is that no matter what happens on launch day I feel that we have really been quite successful already.
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I think I can say with confidence that we've left no stone unturned. We've made no shortcuts in development. We've done everything we can.
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There is not a great amount of further development to be done for the heavy versions. We won't spend that money until we have a customer. Then we will do aerodynamic analysis, separation systems, a few things like that.
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What Space X ultimately contributes to space travel might please the government in other ways. One of the significant innovations of Falcon V is that because it's got five engines on the main stage, it can actually lose an engine and reach orbit safely, ... If the space shuttle were to lose one of its solid rocket boosters the people on the shuttle would be doomed.
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