Monday, April 30, 2012

SpaceX test fires Falcon 9 rocket for Dragron spacecraft launch

SpaceX test fires Falcon 9 rocket for Dragron spacecraft launch

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, popularly known as SpaceX, has fired all nine engines of the Falcon 9 rocket today at Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of the SpaceX's rehearsals for the Dragron spacecraft's second launch this coming May 7. The main goal of the expedition will be to travel to the International Space Station where the first-ever commercial space capsule will conduct a series of exercises to check its navigation system after which astronauts will unload the supplies and items to the research facility. If things will go as planned, the capsule will then will make a return trip back to Earth with a cargo on it.

Ubergizmo, SpaceX test fires Falcon 9 rocket for Dragron spacecraft launch