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		smackfu on April 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX CRS-3 launch scrubbed due to helium leak They did 8 test flights in 2012 and 2013, and they were pretty successful, so I'm not sure what else there was to test at this point.

lutorm on April 14, 2014 [–]

The Grasshopper test flights didn't really expand the envelope to anything nearly like the conditions the first stage experiences at entry (max altitude and speed <1% of the real thing) so I'm sure there's no shortage of things to test.

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