{"id":2987,"date":"2008-09-29T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/29\/fourth-times-the-charm\/"},"modified":"2008-09-29T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T09:01:39","slug":"fourth-times-the-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/29\/fourth-times-the-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Time&#8217;s the Charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to SpaceX for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/missionlaunches\/080928-spacex-falcon1-fourthtest.html\">successfully launching a payload into orbit<\/a> after three failed attempts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The two-stage Falcon 1 rocket built by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) lifted off at about 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT) from the U.S. Army&#8217;s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Defense Test Site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the about 2,500 miles (4,023 km) southwest of Hawaii. The successful space shot came less than a month after an engine timing error during stage separation doomed SpaceX&#8217;s third Falcon 1 test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the saying goes, the fourth time&#8217;s the charm,&#8221; SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told an elated group of 500 employees at his Hawthorne, Calif.-based headquarters. &#8220;This is one of the best days of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a true believer in the magic of the market, so I don&#8217;t see this as a transformative moment, but I&#8217;ve noted their failures, so I really ought to celebrate their success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to SpaceX for successfully launching a payload into orbit after three failed attempts: The two-stage Falcon 1 rocket built by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) lifted off at about 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT) from the U.S. Army&#8217;s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Defense Test Site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the about 2,500 miles (4,023 km)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/29\/fourth-times-the-charm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fourth Time&#8217;s the Charm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}