And we have a winner of the Dudly Award for quality space journalism :-)

"I saw it in the newspaper so it must be true." - Dudley Do-Right

http://www.sundayherald.com/53025
Star quality

New frontier: Private rocket signals new era for the space industry. By Matthew Magee

ALL eyes in the international space industry were focused on Saturday’s launch. As the engines fired at 1pm local time, a thin metal tube tore through the atmosphere above Kwajalein atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, trailing fire and fumes as it left the launch-pad far below.

The Falcon 1 rocket was carrying on-board a satellite bound for orbit, but it was also bearing an unseen burden, the fate of the burgeoning private space industry itself.