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posted by martyb on Wednesday December 05 2018, @05:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-time-for-sure dept.

Monday's SpaceX launch was a success with both the landing and with the booster recovery. Unfortunately, the second launch mentioned in that story had to be delayed:

Moldy Mouse Food Postpones SpaceX Launch:

SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said.

[...] Some 40 mice are part of the experiment aimed at studying the effects of microgravity in the immune system.

The launch will be the 16th for SpaceX, as part of an ongoing contract with NASA to send supplies to the astronauts living at the space station.

Some 5,600 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of food, experiments and other gear is packed onto the unmanned Dragon cargo ship, which will blast off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Launch is scheduled for 1 hour after this story goes live.

The launch will be live-streamed on YouTube starting approximately 15 minutes before launch time.


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:31PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:31PM (#770798) Journal

    Sure, he's releases his blooper video of historical failures, but even doing that is reinforcing the pretence that failure is a thing of the past.

    We could also look at the rate of successful launches. They are considerably higher now than in the early days when no launches were successful. So this pretense was indeed true. Hmmm, does that make it not a pretense then?

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday December 07 2018, @03:51AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday December 07 2018, @03:51AM (#771020) Homepage
    given that spiralling out of control is a partial failure, failures still do happen, and you're talking khrap as usual.
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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 07 2018, @05:45AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 07 2018, @05:45AM (#771042) Journal

      given that spiralling out of control is a partial failure, failures still do happen

      And that's relevant how? Who again is selling this as failures never happen anymore?