Originally Posted by
Hokulea
I'm trying to figure things out from various sources, but it looks as though the launch was successful, the 1st stage had to be blown up after separation, the second stage continued but had to be "terminated" when it was very close to to its planned shutdown. Right now it looks as though it did a lot better than its first flight and will probably be called successful.
About a week ago, Musk said something to the effect that if they had a successful flight through staging, it would be considered a successful test - anything after that would be icing on the cake. So yes, I think Space X will consider this to be a success.
Originally Posted by
Expatrick
Or, mabe be just give it up and devote the resources to something useful.
Said no rocket scientist, EVER!
BTW, why don't you think the ability to extremely large payloads into orbit - at a reasonable cost - would be "something useful".