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The Dragon is in orbit

Commentable: May 22, 2012
I hope this will be a date with a footnote attached, but little remembered. Today, May 22, 2012 at 07:44 GMT the SpaceX, Inc. Falcon 9 rocket lofted into the Florida sky, rising above the ghostly gantries of NASA’s now dead space programs. It is the first ‘private’ or ‘commercial’ rocket launched to bring supplies [...]
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Falcon 9 – Dragon: Setting a milestone in commercial space flight

News: Space Exploration    December 8, 2010
Artist’s conception of the Dragon capsule in orbit….Credit: Space X When President Obama, on the recommendation of the Augustine Commission, committed to raising the profile of commercial space flight, there were (and are) plenty of skeptics. Many assumed this was a zero-sum game, where if one company or agency wins more contract money, another loses. [...]
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Falcon 9 flies for COTS

News: Space Exploration    June 5, 2010
Commercial Orbital Transportation Systems (COTS) sounds like a circumlocution, a long-winded way of saying space-taxi, but the first flight of the commercial rocket Falcon 9 by the Space X Corporation is a milestone in the movement (trend, effort, or struggle) toward private for-profit companies taking at least some of the space flights that have been [...]
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