{"id":100,"date":"2007-03-21T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2007-03-21T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T13:04:06","slug":"95-success-beats-5-failure-any-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/95-success-beats-5-failure-any-day\/","title":{"rendered":"95% Success beats 5% Failure any day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=by-iwbgkaIA\" target=\"_blank\">Falcon 1<\/a>&#8216;s second test flight took off yesterday. There was a problem in the second stage, but it was an error that they claim couldn&#8217;t be seen unless they actually launched. That&#8217;s why they call it a test flight, after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/nucleus\/index.php?itemid=3561\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c2\u00a0Hobbyspace <\/a>has a partial transcript of SpaceX&#8217;s media call, including a few words from Musk himself.<\/p>\n<p>It is a decent success, but I wonder how far they really off from their goal of reliably launching Falcon 1 at $7 million a pop.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be interesting to learn how the lessons learned hear apply to their bigger rocket Falcon 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falcon 1&#8216;s second test flight took off yesterday. There was a problem in the second stage, but it was an error that they claim couldn&#8217;t be seen unless they actually launched. That&#8217;s why they call it a test flight, after all. \u00c2\u00a0Hobbyspace has a partial transcript of SpaceX&#8217;s media call, including a few words from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-1C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}