### Comment:
They've had what, 5 out of 77 launches fail? That's a great record if you're a basketball team, but not if you're gambling with billion dollar satellites. Especially when their competitor has a perfect track record of like 120 consecutive successful launches since their creation.  
  
 I'm a big fan of Space X, and they're incredibly innovative. However, let's not kid ourselves that they're the most reliable thing out there.

### REPLY:
&gt;Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 73 times over 9 years, resulting in 71 full mission successes (97.3%), one partial success (CRS-1 delivered its cargo to the ISS, but a secondary payload was stranded in a lower-than-planned orbit), and one failure (the CRS-7 spacecraft was lost in flight). Additionally, one rocket and its payload Amos-6 were destroyed before launch in preparation for an on-pad static fire test.

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