All Blog Posts Tagged 'spacex' (3)

SpaceX Dragon touches down completing the first private flight to the ISS

In case you've missed the news today:

The return to Earth completes a historic first mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by a privately operated vehicle.

Impact with the water was confirmed at 08:42 Pacific Daylight Time (15:42 GMT; 16:42 BST).

Fast boats positioned in the splashdown zone were despatched to recover the…

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Added by Robert Sinclair on May 31, 2012 at 11:30am — 4 Comments

Falcon 9 / Dragon Launch at 3:45AM EST (UPDATE: Success!)

UPDATE: They did it!!

For those of you awake right now, Spacex's Falcon 9 rocket with Dragon capsule will be launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida in less than an hour. If successful, this mission will see the first private spacecraft docking…

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Added by Jeff Taylor on May 22, 2012 at 12:00am — 14 Comments

SpaceX Falcon 9 Achieves Orbit!



SpaceX launched its brand new Falcon 9 rocket on Friday and the flight was a complete success! SpaceFlightNow has a great rundown of the whole sequence of events and some awesome pictures to go along with it (including the one above).


You can watch the official video on the…
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Added by Jeff Taylor on June 6, 2010 at 7:37pm — 7 Comments

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