Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9

The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule lift off May 22, 2012, from Cape Canaveral Air Force station in Florida to begin a demonstration mission to the International Space Station.

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[KScholefield51]

The average age of the flight controllers during the apollo missions was 26, so no, not all that surprising.

[LetsFly321]

They recently got a $1.5 bilion contract from nasa to resuply their space station. I dont know if people are aware of this but Elon Musk the owner of spacex is actualy South-African. When he was 19 he moved to Canada and then america were he started PayPal which he sold to Compaq for more than a $bilion, he then used that money to start Tesla Motors and SpaceX as well. He is a big insperation for me, I am also South-African.

[PhuxNews]

He sold Zip2 to Compaq for $30M before the development of PayPal.

[dru petey]

He sold PayPal to Ebay, not Compaq.

[spddracer]

Makes we wish we could put aside nationality, and focus on Commonality.

[Poisonofmemory]

spacex show off

[leibmark]

+++

[paul johnson]

Hey one went on today october 7 2012 thumbs up if ya saw it

[camren903]

we need to work on going back to the moon

[louielouie11224]

I highly doubt your scenario, seeing as how, whether you use a rocket or a spaceplane, you're still getting into the space the hard way, by using immense power. The ONLY way rockets could be threatened is the space elevator.

In addition, SpaceX plans to make their rockets fully reusable in the near future by having them do propulsive landing back on Earth, so their prices will only continue to decrease.

[DestinyRoxx]

Just watched the video again and I am filled with so much joy!