Re: Falcon first stage finished


Seems it made it into space, but does not say orbit. Kind of sounds
like there might have been a problem. No matter what, this is much
better than the other launch, so there is real progress.

http://kwajrockets.blogspot.com/

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f2/status.html



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