Flight 4 cleared for liftoff Sunday

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: September 27, 2008 (Posted Saturday September 27, 2008 ('tomorrow, Sunday September 28th'); Wikipedia cites it as 'Falcon 1 Flight 4', Elon Musk, September 27, 2008, at spacex.com/F1-004.php.)
To:: SpaceX update mailing list
Subject:: Falcon 1 Flight 4

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

Falcon 1 is currently cleared for liftoff sometime between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. (California time) tomorrow, Sunday September 28th. Of course, if we see anything that requires investigation, the launch will be postponed, but we'll let you know as soon as we know. As with prior flights, you can access the webcast from the SpaceX site:

About this email

On the eve of Flight 4, Musk says Falcon 1 is cleared to lift off Sunday September 28 between 4 and 9 p.m. California time, with a postponement if anything needs investigating, and points readers to the webcast.

Notes

Parabolic Arc introduces it as an update Elon Musk 'posted on his blog'; the quotation stops at the webcast link, so the original may have continued. NBC's Cosmic Log also carried it but is closed to the fetch tool.

Where it came from

Published by Musk; attribution widely reported.

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