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Falcon 1 Flew Four Times in 2006–2008: Three Failures, One Orbit — and the Statement Printed the Day After the Third Failure
Flight by flight: Falcon 1's four launches from Omelek Island — the corroded fitting, the slosh, the stage recontact that killed Flight 3 on August 2, 2008, and Flight 4's orbit on September 28, 2008 — with Musk's August 2008 statement, his IEEE Spectrum account, and his August 30, 2026 post printed separately.