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Elon was setting expectations a couple days ago when he said "Let's just not explode on the launch pad" or somesuch. In that sense, mission definitely accomplished. "Massive" success? Not sure I would go that far, but success of a massive project? Absolutely. It would have been nice to see the mission hit all it's objectives, but I'm sure they got quite a bit of data and operational experience.

What would be a failure is if the next one has the same problem.



> Elon was setting expectations a couple days ago when he said "Let's just not explode on the launch pad"

That seems like such a low bar? One wonders if the engineers/management at SpaceX cringed when he said that.




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