I’ve received several smart emails on my missile-defense article today. One aerospace engineer makes this point: “A successful test does not mean that the item under test worked properly, but rather that the test was able to produce useful information. For example, had the missile intercepted the target, but telemetry not been received and recorded, the missile would have been a success but the test itself would only have been partly successful.” Also, a staffer at the Media Research Center has forwarded this link, showing how the press focuses on missile-defense tests that aren’t perfect and ignores the ones that go very well.