warrenellis.com - 9/29/2008
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SpaceX finally got their Falcon 1 vehicle to orbit. And they had a camera mounted on the vehicle, capturing the whole thing in a wonderful video:
blog.wired.com - 10/2/2008
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blog.wired.com —
With a successful Falcon 1 launch under their
belt, all eyes are now on the SpaceX team
and the larger Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to be shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida, late this year to prep for its NASA cargo flights. Falcon 9 has ...
(more)
Next for SpaceX: Falcon 9, NASA, Humans and the Moon?
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Falcon flying free - SpaceX finally make it to orbit
Futurismic —
... insertion—middle of the bull’s-eye — and then went on to coast and restart the second stage, which was icing on the cake.”
Watching that makes me feel that - as a species - we’re pretty awesome. It’s just a shame we can’t stop arguing over which subgroups of the species are more awesome than the others… what might we achieve then?
[Story via pretty much everywhere; video first seen at Warren Ellis's gaff] ...
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