Or click to go to YouTube and click the high quality link to see in better quality.
Pretty cool stuff, massive amounts of delta V required to do this, done by a team of 550 people with no reused parts from other programs (no old motors from ICBMs or something), totally from scratch.
Very cool, hopefully they continue to go forward. Private inexpensive lift capability is one way to ensure we get off this rock.
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Or click to go to YouTube and click the high quality link to see in better quality.
Pretty cool stuff, massive amounts of delta V required to do this, done by a team of 550 people with no reused parts from other programs (no old motors from ICBMs or something), totally from scratch.
Very cool, hopefully they continue to go forward. Private inexpensive lift capability is one way to ensure we get off this rock.
I totally forgot the launch was postponed until today. Awesome. And especially awesome for me since they are one of my accounts.
Last edited by FlamingLonghorn; 09-28-2008 at 08:46 PM.
That is very cool, I wonder what NASA thinks of that. Willing to be the private sector did a bunch of things NASA never thought of.
Any equipment on board or was it just a test to see if they could get a vehicle into orbit? I take it it stays up there?
It was just a test to see if they could get it in orbit. NASA actually will be giving them more funding now I believe. Pretty much a bunch of private companies are racing to the finish line of replacing a lot of NASA's projects including flying people to the ISS. The theory is the private sector can do it better because of competition. The winner will get not only gov't contracts but funding as well. Go to spacex.com and read about it; it's a pretty cool company.
SpaceX - First private liquid rocket into orbit!
