As SpaceX Knows, That's Why They Call Them 'Test Flights'
Initial Report by ANN Space Correspondent, Wes Oleszewski
"So we're 5-for-5 testing on this Grasshopper. Wahoo! But, but that means we're not pushin' hard enough. We've gotta' tunnel one of those vehicles into the ground by trying somethin' really hard. We haven't done that yet. So now our challenge to our test team is that you've gotta push hard enough that we're gonna to see somethin' happen. A spectacular video… failures make spectacular video"
That was SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, in mid -June 2013 in a TEDx Talk at Chapman University. On the evening of August 22nd, 2014, Shotwell and SpaceX got their wish as a Falcon