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Gratz, SpaceX!

By lance on May 31, 2012 1:55 PM | 5 Comments

"It was a major success for us," Dragon mission director John Couluris of SpaceX said during a news conference yesterday (May 30). "The trust and hard work that NASA helped SpaceX with were really important. The ability to get to the space station on our first time, to not only rendezvous but to berth — we would call that mission alone a success."

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Philanthropist | May 31, 2012 7:23 PM | Reply

Impressive. To go from where they started just a few years ago to a rendezvous at 17,000 miles an hour in low earth orbit is a huge achievement.

cgh | May 31, 2012 9:29 PM | Reply

Agreed, Philanthropist. NASA's strength has been in technology research and development. This is the first large sign of the other half of the coin: the involvement of private industry in showing how to make it effective and profitable.

The Worm | June 1, 2012 10:19 AM | Reply

I said it before, and I'll say it again...

WHAT HAPPENS TEN YEARS DOWN THE ROAD WHEN SPACEX GETS PURCHASED BY CHINA? CHINA SUDDENLY IS THE PRIME MOVER ON SPACE TRAVEL.

It's what stagnant, non-innovative communist countries do. They either steal or purchase their successes.
Cheers,
The Worm

Ed Minchau | June 1, 2012 6:38 PM | Reply

Worm, you mean like the way China bought out Elon Musk's other company, Paypal? Oh wait, that didn't happen.

cgh | June 1, 2012 9:51 PM | Reply

By the way, Philanthropist, that's not low orbit, which is everything less than 2000 km. That's a medium orbit just under semi-geosynchronous, which is at 20,200 km.

Worm, that's our tough luck if we're stupid enough to develop it and not use it. What are you saying? That we should never go into space because the evil communists might buy it out from under us? By that logic we should have stayed in caves scratching fleas.

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