Tomorrow’s Launch from Cape Canaveral Would Set the Stage for Historic Test Flight First Ever Attempt by a Private Company to Send a Spacecraft to the International Space Station Hawthorne, CA – Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 22nd, at 3:44 AM Eastern, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft to orbit in an exciting start to the mission that will make SpaceX the first commercial company in history to try to send a spacecraft to the… (www.spacex.com) More...
I'm sure I've mentioned this before in other posts that my late father built the throttling controls for the Space Shuttles 3 main engines at Honeywell in Minneapolis back in the 1970's. Seeing the shuttle retired with no other manned program in sight (NASA wise) I am looking very forward to a successful launch of the Falcon 9 tomorrow morning. This truly is the next generation of space travel, privately owned, non government industries building space vehicles.
