Craig SailaOrbit would’ve been nice, but a huge surprise if it actually happened
Per @sciguyspace: “No private company has ever launched its first independently developed, liquid-fueled rocket and had it reach orbit on the first try”
Michael Gemar@saila @sciguyspace It seems like they accomplished most of the hard parts — starting and running 9 methalox engines, making it structurally through max-Q, and stage sep. Hopefully, what looked like failure of second stage engine ignition is easy to diagnose and fix.