Elon Musk photo on Twitter.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, really, really likes to compare himself to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, James Bond’s arch enemy.
This week, SpaceX had a much-publicized launch. It didn’t go as planned. Here’s an excerpt from CNN’S WEBSITE:
(CNN)—SpaceX on Tuesday launched a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carrying an uncrewed cargo spacecraft called Dragon on a flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the International Space Station.
That was the easy part. In a difficult bid to land a rocket stage on a floating barge for the first time, the private space exploration company was unsuccessful.
Musk, whose photo on Twitter evokes Blofeld as well as Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies, had been more optimistic about the outcome. And, in doing so, *again* evoked Blofeld, specifically as depicted in You Only Live Twice:
Musk was less jovial after the landing failure.
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The Spy Command 
“You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have a launched a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket land a rocket stage on a freaking floating barge! Now evidently my colleagues in the private space business inform me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have? What… really… oh sure… So droneship fine. No hull breach. Minor repairs…. Riiight. Certainly not using you freaking idiots to build the volcano lair but feel free to go swimming in the… magma.”