Falcon launcher travels less than 100 metres on maiden flight.

The rocket revolution has been postponed. The privately funded Falcon 1 launcher, which its builders hope will make access to space relatively cheap, failed half a minute into its first flight on 24 March. Early analysis points to a fuel leak as the cause of an onboard fire that brought the rocket down less than 100 metres from its launch pad on the Pacific atoll of Kwajalein.

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