They are suppose to be reopening on Saturday ! <| sep |> I will . Give me a couple weeks <| sep |> I ' m sorry but you ' re very misinformed on this . First of all , Musk had to go through multiple rigorous certification processes to be approved to fly payloads for NASA and for the US Air Force , respectively . Neither certification has been impacted by the 2 explosions , because NASA and USAF understand that explosions happen sometimes when you ' re launching rockets . Both customers have been involved in SpaceX ' s accident investigations and have approved of their methods and findings . Second , The risk to bystanders is very slim . Nobody is allowed within a mile of the rocket while it ' s being fueled and launching , and the US Air Force , which controls the launch range , maintains an exclusion zone at sea to ensure no boats are under the path of potential debris in a failure . Bystander injuries or fatalities have been extremely rare in the history of rocketry , especially in the US . China and Russia have a worse track record . r e l a t e d a c cidentsandincidentsSpaceX has a 93 % success rate 27 successes out of 29 attempts with the Falcon 9 . That ' s pretty much average for the industry . The fact that they have achieved this as a fairly new company and while pushing the technological boundaries of rocketry is very impressive . They have used colder cryogenic fuels than anyone else more efficient , they ' re the first to recover an orbital first stage and now have recovered 6 total , and they lead the industry in telemetry sensing and data collection for the rocket . ULA still leads in a couple of technological areas superior flight software and superior second stage in particular , but they have half a century of experience building rockets .