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Published online 6 August 2008 | Nature 454, 679 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454679b
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Third failure for private rocket launch
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Wow, we have been launching rockets since World War II. It is surprising that the technology is not developed to the point where this can be done privately. Is this a comment on the state of aerospace engineering or a rush to make profit. On the business side, the experiments that this failure has destroyed cost researchers a lot of money. How can this company survive as a business if they keep destroying the payloads?