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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Successful

Posted on: May 22nd, 2012 by partapsingh No Comments

I’ll post more about it once the Dragon completes its mission and we find out whether it met all the mission requirements. For now, congratulations to the SpaceX team for the quick turnaround. Here’s a picture of this morning’s launch from NASA:

SpaceX Launch 2012-05-22

Image Credit: NASA/Alan Ault

If the mission is successful, we will be in a new era of space flight. Some people are already declaring the start of the new era with the launch, but that’s a bit premature – it actually has to do some work up there. As you might already know from reading my other articles, I’m skeptical about private industry’s vision and ability to think big, but any space flight is better than none.

 

 

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