Friday, May 18, 2012

The Rocket Factory: SpaceX Builds Them From Top to Bottom

The Rocket Factory: SpaceX Builds Them From Top to Bottom - The commercial space race is about to begin. Early Saturday morning at 4:55 a.m. EDT, the first privately designed and built spacecraft destined for the International Space Station is expected to lift off from the historic Cape Canaveral Air Force Station not far from the Atlantic Ocean on Florida's east coast. The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule are designed and built by Space Exploration Technologies - the company better known as SpaceX - at the company's factory not far from the Pacific Ocean in Hawthorne, California.

(Via Wired Top Stories.)

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