Sometimes mistakes bother me so I decide to see if I can get them fixed.

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Joe Puccio 
Wed, Feb 11, 2015, 10:07 PM
to mariella

Hi Mariella,

I was just reading your most recent article entitled “SpaceX launches DSCOVR but scrubs its barge landing” and I was a little confused by the following statement: "Falcon 9's first stage flew in from a much farther location than before -- almost a million miles away, four times further than the moon”. I’m not entirely sure, but was the "almost a million miles away" figure intended to refer to the orbit distance of the rocket’s payload, the DSCOVR, rather than the distance the Falcon 9 would fly in from?

Thanks,

Joe




Mariella Moon 
Wed, Feb 11, 2015, 10:21 PM
to me

Yes! It's the figure intended to refer to the orbit distance. Thanks for pinging me -- there were some missing words in the piece.

M



Joe Puccio 
Wed, Feb 11, 2015, 10:51 PM
to Mariella

No problem. Thanks for writing about this stuff! 

Joe