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Old 16-05-2025, 11:37 AM
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Peter Ward
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I read the following today:
"Gilmour has previously pointed out that it took Elon Musk four attempts to launch the Falcon 9 rocket successfully, and Musk is now experiencing a similar sequence of unsuccessful initial Starship launches"

Interestingly, the Von Braun rocket team had no significant failures with the Saturn V program over a half century ago....in fact their record at NASA was almost faultless.

The take-away may be Gilmour and Musk are clearly not "Rocket Scientists"

P.S.
I admit to setting my Mum's hedge on fire with my home built zinc-dust and sulphur powered rocket in the 1970's. It looked pretty cool until it arced into
the hedge.
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