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I doubt they set out to launch eleven times without reaching orbit.


They very explicitly were not setting out for orbit for most of them.


Yes, but if you asked someone at SpaceX before flight 1 where they would be by flight 11, I doubt they would have been happy about the reality.


And?


Not a single one of them had reaching stable orbit in the flight plan.




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