Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st - Yahoo! News

I like that first line, PRIVATELY FUNDED.

I had my reservations about the U.S. giving up on the space shuttle, but if we can get to space by using private money then I am all for it.

Of course according to liberals we can't get to oil Independence without first throwing money at failing green companies......

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You must be Romney. First the right rags the sh*t out of Obama about NASA but now that there is a successful privately funded space business ya'll like it. Funny stuff. BTW it was government spending that opened the door for the possibilty of private space business. Sort of Keynesian wouldn't you say?

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Cooler than Jesus riding a dinosaur.

I thought this line was funny...

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SpaceX with its Dragon rocket, is the privately funded aero-space company in Los Angeles I posted about, just forgot its name. The Dragon now has the contract to provide supplies to the international space station, and is working on another rocket which will carry human's into outer space. The company owner is very young, and already has invested about $5 million dollars of his personal fortune in SpaceX, which appears to be America's answer to the elimination of the space shuttle program. He tried to purchase one of Russia's old nuclear ICBM rockets, but developed SpaceX when the Ruskies wanted $100 million for just one ICBM. Using private money now, but allowing for NASA assistance and use of Cape Canaveral's launch site, is the way to go back to space, the moon, another space station, possibly even a space colony on the moon. As a species, we have to move beyond earth's small dimension's to survive, otherwise, either an Ice Age, or major climate change or overpopulation and hunger will eliminate the human race in the future. I am all for SpaceX.

Anyway you look at it, they have competition. Not for the space station but the moon in the end I believe.

I am just about ready to post that China plans a manned space launch this month to dock, well this is just part of it.

BEIJING (AP) — China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday.

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