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marketrent OP t1_jam36nr wrote

Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Eric Berger:

>A Falcon 9 rocket blasted into the starry sky above Florida early on Thursday morning, sending four astronauts safely on their way into low-Earth orbit.

>Thursday morning's flight carried NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, the mission commander, and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, its pilot, along with United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, both mission specialists.

>Just prior to launch, Bowen offered these words to the SpaceX launch team: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Crew-6 is ready for launch." Bowen was quoting from Shakespeare's play "Henry V."

>Upon reaching orbit, Hoburg was clearly pumped about the heart-pounding experience he had just gone through.

>"As a rookie flier, that was one heck of a ride, thank you," he radioed back to SpaceX's flight control center. "I would say this is an absolute miracle of engineering and I just feel so lucky that I get to fly on this amazing machine."

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>After the Falcon 9 rocket separated—with the second stage and Dragon motoring toward orbit—the first stage burned back toward Earth. A few minutes later it made a bullseye landing on the Just Read The Instructions drone ship.

>Monday morning's launch was the 207th overall flight of the rocket.

>A little more than seven years have passed since the Falcon 9 rocket made its first successful landing back on Earth. That was just SpaceX's 20th launch of the Falcon 9 rocket.

>For a time, after that first landing, SpaceX had several misses as it continued to experiment with landing on a drone ship, as well as enduring a few mishaps.

>However, since a drone ship landing failure in February 2021, SpaceX had reeled off 100 consecutive successful booster landings.

>Monday morning's return made for lucky no. 101.

^1 Eric Berger for Condé Nast’s Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2023, https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/on-its-second-attempt-the-crew-6-mission-soared-into-orbit-early-thursday/

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Ballongo t1_jaqe2no wrote

>Monday morning's launch was the 207th overall flight of the rocket.

>That was just SpaceX's 20th launch of the Falcon 9 rocket.

Is this a typo or am I missing something, I see a clear contradiction but perhaps the article is just poorly written? Could this mean that totally they've launched all Falcon versions 207 times; 20 times with Falcon 9 and 207-20=187 with Falcon 1?

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marketrent OP t1_jaqem61 wrote

Falcon 9 “made its first successful landing back on Earth” with “SpaceX’s 20th launch” of the rocket:

>A little more than seven years have passed since the Falcon 9 rocket made its first successful landing back on Earth. That was just SpaceX's 20th launch of the Falcon 9 rocket.

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