AstroBebop » spacex http://www.astrobebop.com/blog Videos on space exploration, space tourism, robotics, astronomy, astrophotography, and aeronautics. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:04:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Space Exploration: Why Does it Inspire Us? http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2011/space-exploration-why-does-it-inspire-us/ http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2011/space-exploration-why-does-it-inspire-us/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:03:33 +0000 flyingeraser http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/?p=700 SpaceX CEO & CTO Elon Musk discusses the importance of inspiration.

More information on SpaceX:
http://www.spacex.com/
http://twitter.com/spacexer
http://www.facebook.com/SpaceX

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More information on SpaceX:
http://www.spacex.com/
http://twitter.com/spacexer
http://www.facebook.com/SpaceX

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Animation prototype of the world’s most powerful rocket from SpaceX.

More info here - http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php

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]]> http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2010/interview-with-elon-musk-of-spacex-spacepod/feed/ 0 1st SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Flight http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2010/1st-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-flight/ http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2010/1st-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-flight/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:33:04 +0000 flyingeraser http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/?p=559 On June 4th, 2010 at 14:30 UTC the first ever Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Carrying the Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit this flight was designed to test not only the vehicle itself but also begin tests of the Dragon capsule.

Source: Spacevidcast

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Source: SpaceX

]]> http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/spacex-engine-and-structural-test-site-texas/feed/ 0 Elon Musk – SpaceX Blasts-off http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/elon-musk-spacex-blasts-off/ http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/elon-musk-spacex-blasts-off/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:53:11 +0000 flyingeraser http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/?p=136 Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is an American space-transportation startup company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk.. It is developing partially reusable launch vehicles – the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 – and the Dragon series of space capsules. SpaceX designs, tests and fabricates the majority of their components in-house, including the Merlin, Kestrel, and Draco rocket engines.

Originally based in El Segundo, SpaceX now operates out of Hawthorne, California.

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While Scaled Composites did reach space twice and thus winning the Ansari X PRIZE, they did not actually reach orbit. The Falcon 1 with its simulated payload is the first private vehicle to reach orbit on Sunday September 28th, 2008 at 23:31 UTC.

Source: spacevidcast

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