PayPal Co-Founder Elon Musk's Rocket Ship Crashes and Burns

[mandy]

A fire fed by a fuel leak caused the failure of a commercial rocket seconds into its maiden launch, the company that built it has confirmed.

SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket was lost during lift-off from an island in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean...

The vision of Elon Musk, co-founder of the electronic payment system PayPal, the Falcon was designed to cut the cost of current satellite launches...

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4848782.stm

[dnc_ont]

How ironic.

[xppman]

Didn't he bail on paypal after the sale to ebay?

Took his money and ran knowing that ebay just purchased
what I still think will be found to be a criminal enterprise in the near future.  :blinkie:

[regic]

Rockets are all the rage!!!!!!  Richard Branson (Virgin), Paul Allen (Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Larry Page (Google)!!!!! :twistedevil:

The last few years have seen an ever-growing number of extremely wealthy investors investing in or talking about investing in space transportation.

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/587/1

I like this quote the best: Ventures like Kistler Aerospace have spent hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after a market that, on the surface, isn’t worth investing a single dollar in

FYI- Kistler spent $900 million before declaring bankruptcy.

[jezebel]

I have my theories on why men who are approaching middle age buy rockets. :twistedevil: