Saturday night, I sat here fixated on my web browser. I was visiting SpaceX to watch the launch of one of their rockets. If it involves space, I love it. Whether it’s NASA, space travel, astronomy, or just simple stargazing, it doesn’t matter. I love everything space.

As the countdown hit zero, nothing happened. Then there was a poof of smoke. I heard them saying that the launch had aborted…Umm. yeah, I saw that. We all saw that. What surprised me the most though, was the fact that they were ready to try again within the hour. How awesome was that?

The countdown hit zero, and the rocket launched. It was amazing, really. Simply amazing. I am always in awe when I watch rockets launch. When we lived outside of Las Vegas when I was a kid, I had broken my left femur and was in a cast from my hips down. My dad carried me out onto the front lawn so we could watch a rocket take off from Southern California. I felt the same wonder Saturday night watching that rocket launch (except now I am not in a body cast).

Almost 2 minutes into the launch the camera went blank. They announced there had been an anomoly. I had no idea what happened, and was wondering all night…

A privately funded rocket suffered a launch failure Saturday night, the third launch failure in as many attempts for an Internet entrepreneur who is hoping to develop private space delivery and transportation.

The failure occurred about two minutes after the launch of the two-stage Falcon 1 rocket, which was manufactured by Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX. A failure prevented the two stages from separating after the launch from a central Pacific atoll, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a company blog. Musk said an investigation into the cause of the failure is under way, but he called the launch itself as “picture perfect.”

I have no doubt they will get it right. No doubt at all. Once they work out the kinks, and start offering flight deals, SpaceX is going to rock the world.

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