Posted June 16, 2010 5:58 PM
By David Todd
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES (SPACEX) FALCON 9 'BEATS THE ODDS' & MAKES IT INTO ORBIT
While many space experts and pundits (including the Ascend space team) noted the high risk of failure that maiden flights usually have to face (in excess of 50%), and while even Space X’s CEO Elon Musk, equated the first launch of the Falcon 9 to ‘Russian Roulette’, in the end, the launch vehicle’s first flight successfully achieved orbit on 4th June.