Sounds fun, some cool facts here: <a href="http://www.spacex.com/falcon1.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.spacex.com/falcon1.php</a><p>It makes me wonder how you deal with something like this. If something like this happened in Russia (or "somewhere"), and somehow the US didn't know about it, they would have jets up in the air and the whole country put on red alert as soon as they find out about a rocket being launched, I expect. Does SpaceX have to send letters out to the major nations of the world, or something? Or have I got all this out of movies and there's no real way to track recently launched missiles?
Oh dear. "the flight of our first stage, with the new Merlin 1C engine that will be used in Falcon 9, was picture perfect. Unfortunately, a problem occurred with stage separation, causing the stages to be held together. This is under investigation and I will send out a note as soon as we understand exactly what happened. "<p>Video here: <a href="http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1299" rel="nofollow">http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1299</a>