Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Falcon 9 is a rocket-powered spaceflight launch system designed and manufactured by SpaceX, headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
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Splashdown!The SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Thursday at 11:42am ET in a momentous end to the California company's test mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
"Splashdown successful!! Sending fast boat to Dragon lat/long provided by P3 tracking planes," wrote SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Twitter. Lockheed's P-3 Orion is a four-engine maritime surveillance aircraft meant to track submarines; they had no trouble finding Dragon. Off the west coast of the Baja California peninsula, recovery boats made contact with the 19-foot (5.8m) tall, 12-foot (3.6m) wide vehicle about 10 minutes after splashdown and began work to pluck it out of the ocean.Dragon will be shipped to the Port of Los Angeles and will then go to SpaceX's McGregor, Texas, facility, about 100 miles (160km) south of Dallas, where its 1,000 pounds (450kg) of cargo will be processed and handed over to NASA."This is a really huge step in restoring the supply line to the space station that we lo...Following a few hours delay and an aborted initial attempt, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket -- one of an emerging class of private rockets intended to take the U.S. space p...
A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-...
A private spaceship on its first trip to the International Space Station made a flyby of the orbiting laboratory early Thursday, zipping just below the outpost in an...
The first commercial spacecraft ever launched toward the International Space Station is playing a game of catch-up today (May 23) as it heads toward an unprecedented...
Today's planned inaugural flight of the new private Falcon 9 rocket built by the entrepreneurial firm SpaceX is a high-stakes endeavor. A successful liftoff of the p...
A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the his...
A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the his...
A private spacecraft stands ready to launch on a historic first visit to the International Space Station early Saturday morning.The unmanned Dragon space capsule , b...
The private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully test fired the rocket that will launch the first-ever commercial space capsule to the International Space Station...
The private spaceflight company SpaceX will likely postpone the planned launch of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station next week, officials announce...
SpaceX launches rocket on International Space Station resupply mission.
The private spaceflight company SpaceX is poised to launch a robotic capsule toward the International Space Station Saturday (May 19) on a test flight that, if succe...
Following a few hours delay, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, one of an emerging class of private rockets intended to take the U.S. space program into the 21st century, fin...
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), which designs and launches rockets as well as spacecraft, said on Tuesday it signed the first commercial contract to launch ...
Scotty has finally been beamed up. The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the 1960s television series "Star Trek," were launched to space this mor...
The private rocket company SpaceX , fresh off the success of its Falcon 9 rocket debut, has signed the largest single commercial launch contract with satellite compa...
Space Exploration Technologies successfully test fired its Falcon 9 rocket this weekend, clearing a milestone toward the inaugural flight of a privately developed sp...
SpaceX engineers have replaced a faulty engine valve on a private rocket carrying the first commercial space capsule bound for the International Space Station follow...
The private rocket company SpaceX is officially "go" to make a second try at launching its unmanned Dragon capsule early Tuesday, May 22, from Florida's Space Coast....
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