Wednesday 23 May 2012

Commercial rocket sent to space

FLORIDA — A ship built by a billionaire businessman accelerated towards the International Space Station loaded up of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after an outstanding middle-night shot.
The set up of the Falcon 9 rocket and its remote-controlled Dragon capsule scored the first in a commercial spacecraft has been sent to the revolving outpost. Tracing a impassioned arc across the night sky, the rocket airlifted just before 4 a.m. and smoothly supercharged the capsule into orbit. The capsule is expected to assignation with the space station within days, bearing a half-ton of provisions for its six crew members. It is conceived just a test flight. in fact the capsule was bundled with only inessential items, in case something went calamitously wrong but if all goes well with this mission and others like it. “Falcon flew perfectly!!” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of the SpaceX Company, said via Twitter. He said, “Feels like a giant weight just came off my back, for us, it’s like winning the Super Bowl.”
The White House offered felicitations:
John Holdren, President Barack Obama’s chief science adviser, said, “Every launch into space is a thrilling event, but this one is especially exciting, This expanded role for the private sector will free up more of NASA’s resources to do what NASA does best — tackle the most demanding technological challenges in space, including those of human spaceflight beyond low-Earth orbit.”

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