Space Visionaries Prove Naysayers Wrong— Again
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SpaceX's Falcon 1 became the first privately built space ship to orbit the Earth tonight, following in the footsteps of SpaceShipOne which became the first privately built spaceship to fly suborbitally in October 2004. One other thing they both have in common? All the people who said it was impossible.
The live webcast swung their ...
Sunday Night Starlinks
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Why can’t science journalists just tell it like it is when it comes to particle physics? I’m a little torn on this one, although tending to agree with the case argued. Cutting edge physics is cool enough without shrouding it in mystery and pretending it’s a religion.
Falcon 1, a private space craft, makes it to space. Cool!
Dark flows in space. Interesting, and perhaps worth more discussion.
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Next for SpaceX: Falcon 9, NASA, Humans and the Moon?
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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 nine Merlin rocket engines to Falcon 1's one, hence the 9 and the 1 in their names, ...