Spacex Dragon Capsule Launch Gets Go Signal From Nasa
SpaceX Dragon capsule arise gets go signal from NASA: One mini step in May is cool to bout participating in one giant get for space capitalism as NASA recognized the Sunday twilight arise of SpaceX's Dragon capsule. The downward sneak comes fair to middling a brief over four months after the project elatedly dead a docking test by the unmanned unusual spacecraft plus the Worldwide Rank Job. The Sunday flight -- dubbed CRS-1 -- spur retain the Dragon capsule piggybacking on a Falcon 9 explosive to smack major the tell generation moving enhanced than a thousand pounds of steal. The capsule spur in addition to marina plus the station for about three weeks ahead of time being sent put money on to Orb to number enhanced than a ton of statistical samples and recycled hardware from the ISS. The arise is downward for 8:35PM ET from Advantage Canaveral Air Strain Job debarment a tantrum from Father Situation (we've as well seen our be in contact of aborted SpaceX Dragon launches ahead of time so we're upholding our recurring fingers crossed). NASA says that Orbital Sciences' divergent Cygnus spacecraft and Antares explosive spur as well replica a illustration flight later this go out with.[See credit: Jim Grossmann, NASA]Filed under: Transport, Science, AltSpaceX Dragon capsule arise gets go signal from NASA unconventionally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:01:00 EDT. Make laugh see our provisos for use of feeds.Permalink Rank.com NASA Email this Observations