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Old 10-02-2008, 08:03 AM   #31
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Old 10-03-2008, 05:06 PM   #32
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SpaceX Celebrates First Successful Rocket Launch : NPR
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Old 11-04-2008, 09:38 AM   #33
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Known as SpaceX, the Hawthorne developer of experimental low-cost rockets said Monday thatit will commercialize a version of a free-flying reusable spacecraft it is making for NASA.

SpaceX has invited government and commercial representatives to a workshop onThursday to introduce the DragonLab spacecraft concept.

The vehicle will be similar to the Dragon, which the company is developing to ferry cargo and people to and from the international space station.
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A new kind of untested rocket soon will appear on the Cape, ready for its first scheduled flight in the spring.

A successful launch could mean more than 100 additional jobs in the space industry, which is threatened by the end of the shuttle program.

But success isn't guaranteed. SpaceX's smaller, single-engine rocket racked up three failed launches before a fourth launch attempt reached orbit from an island in the Pacific. SpaceX, however, hopes for immediate success with the larger rocket, which uses technologies refined from the four launches of the smaller version.

Measuring 180 feet tall and 12 feet wide, SpaceX's Falcon 9 will have nine newly designed engines and a paying customer for its maiden voyage.

The first Falcon 9 is scheduled to arrive late this year and lift off in the spring from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40. The pad is being renovated in part with $1 million in funding from Space Florida, the state agency formed to help the space industry.

"Fabrication of the hangar will be complete by the end of November," said Brian Mosdell, SpaceX's director of Florida launch operations. "All major components related to other pad systems, including propellant, pneumatic, hydraulics, video, communications and command and control systems, are in place."
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Old 11-24-2008, 04:36 AM   #36
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Aiee! That would be quite disturbing if you were not expecting it!

Hope the test was a success!
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Would be nice is Elon could call up the BLMand say give me 100 sq mls of nothing!
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He should run the engine tests on the last day of Burning Man out in the Nevada desert. More receptive neighbors.
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Old 11-27-2008, 08:25 PM   #39
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Would be nice is Elon could call up the BLMand say give me 100 sq mls of nothing!
Maybe they could set up on the south side of a solar farm. If that video was shot "about four miles from it" and they test after dark, they might be able to pick up some green energy credits with every test!

(Okay, tongue in cheek, but I don't use smileys).
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