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nhangen on Aug 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Sp...

You speak as though you are not a fan of SpaceX. Care to explain why?

btilly on Aug 4, 2012 [–]

I actually am a fan of SpaceX.

But I am not a fan of using as yet unproven superlatives. They will have a failure rate. They will have a fatality rate. The only question is what that rate will be. And right now we have no useful data on that.

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