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Musk on the Falcon 1 hold-down firing

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
February 10, 2006 (Date of Kimbal Musk's blog post quoting it (Friday, February 10, 2006, 8:09 PM).)
To:
SpaceX update mailing list

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

We were very happy to be able to execute a flight countdown all the way to lighting the engine. Although there wasn't a launch this time, we made a lot of progress refining the rocket and launch pad -- all work that needed to be done anyway.

About this email

Musk's statement after the Falcon 1 hold-down firing at Kwajalein: the team ran a flight countdown all the way to engine ignition and used the exercise to refine the rocket and pad.

Notes

Kimbal Musk introduces it as 'Elon's official statement on the launch'. It may come from a press statement rather than the update page, and it may be only part of a longer note; treat as an excerpt. Text was retrieved through a page reader, so punctuation and paragraph breaks may differ slightly from the original page.

Where it came from

Published by Musk; attribution single-source.

SpaceX, newsletter. Tags: spacex-update, falcon-1, kwajalein, static-fire

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