SpaceX's rockets have been flying successfully for quite a long time, and then come back, carefully and with minimal damage, descending to specially equipped water platforms. But it was not always so. Success was preceded by years of trials, which did not always end well. Ilon Musk, the head of SpaceX, published a video on his Instagram blog titled “How not to land an orbital rocket booster”, which contains bad launches of Falcon 9 rockets.
"Like a rocket?" Is she all right? ”Asked Ilon Musk in one of the movie fragments, looking at the pile of debris left over from Falcon 9.
Rockets are cheerfully burning, exploding in the air and landing on music from Monty Python. In the video you can see fragments of unsuccessful launches of Falcon 9, which took place since September 2013. A hard landing on the surface of the ocean, the first “soft” landing on the water, the Falcon 9 explosion due to engine failure, a rocket that fell apart after falling over during landing, and much more, fit into the minute video.
“The story of how Falcon 9, a reusable orbital class launch vehicle, managed, finally, to land successfully and not fall apart,” SpaceX’s head in the commentary on the video gives in to the heat.
To treat their own mistakes with humor and to publish such a video can not every head of a large company, but in SpaceX can adequately assess not only their own success, but also the defeat.
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