FRANCE elects its next president, Greece faces an unpredictable parliamentary election, Japan turns off its last nuclear reactor and SpaceX hopes to launch its Falcon 9 rocket
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I ceertainly hope that SpaceX manages to get a good launch. But being old enough to remember when NASA was first trying to get a satellite into orbit for the first time, a succession of failures isn't exactly a shock.
With other kinds of machinery, you can take one machine out and try it, then fix it and try the same, now fixed, machine again. With a rocket, all you can do is try to fix the next one -- which still leaves you with the new problems of the new one.