Thanks for the nod on #2.

I'd like to comment on #3, but aside from the aborted first try, the flight appeared nominal all the way through to the non-separation of stages 1 and 2. Not much to see, I'm afraid.

SpaceX has a nasty habit of cutting out their webcasts whenever anything goes wrong.

That's not only particularly secretive, it's not even nice!

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

I thought it was mentioned somewhere (but I can't find it), but there were several loses because of this launch failure.
I really sorry to see the loss of the Nanosail satellite.

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One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009
All moderation in purple

Well, SpaceX at last relased full, uncut video. Because I hate asx, I will give version from youtube:
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhci-93Xnxw

With sound! (microphone stuffed with camera inside rocket)

For drama, you do not need BOOM like in films. Sometimes one "thup" is sufficient...

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Butterfly.

Discussion:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=6.0
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5482

I'm surprised no one has posted this yet.

BA Blog: Falcon doom found: a whisper of thrust
As can be seen in the video MaDeR linked to (thanks!), the stages separated a little, but because the lower stage still had a bit of thrust, it rammed into the upper stage.

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“There’s nothing that spells progress in large, friendly letters like trying to combine two totally incompatible technologies.” – David Szondy, Tales of Future Past.

Ironically--this is where parallel staging like what Energiya had might have been a lifesaver--with plenty of sideslip.

Any rocket can have problems, however.