Originally Posted by
tdracer
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.
Yeah, just like the last " great success!".
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".
Extremely large payloads (to do what,) - at a reasonable cost (assuming they don't blow up) - to do what, exactly?
oh, and a useful payload - a Tesla car, a plastic mannequin, or what?