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Private Falcon 9 rocket prepares for launch

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http://www.itwire.com – With Obama and Congress still unsure about how NASA should proceed with its manned space program, NASA continues with privately funded companies as a way to transport cargo and astronauts back and forth into space. As of April 2010, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is preparing for its maiden launch from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 30.   (IT news)

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The Falcon 9 rocket is ready for its maiden test flight on June 4, 2010. The privately funded rocket, built by the U.S. space transport company SpaceX, is a key commercial component in the future of U.S. space exploration and development.  

At 2:45 p.m. on Friday, June 4, 2010, the privately funded Falcon 9 rocket was launched successfully into space from its space pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

On Wednesday, December 8, 2010, the Dragon spacecraft was lifted into space by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. This was the first launch of a commercial vehicle to go into space and return safety to Earth.

Reports from eastern Australia of an UFO spiraling around in the sky Saturday morning (June 5, 2010) has been explained as the Falcon 9 rocket that was launched by private space transport company SpaceX from Cape Canaveral in the United States.  

The design of the new NASA rocket that will take astronauts out beyond low-Earth orbit has been selected by the U.S. agency. It’s a whopper, eventually being the most powerful rocket ever built. NASA calls the entire program the Space Launch System.

At about 2:45 p.m. EDT (1845 GMT) on Friday, June 4, 2010, the Falcon 9 rocket blasted from its Cape Canaveral launch pad and soon it reached its intended goal: Earth orbit. The successful mission, spearheaded by Elon Musk, is only the beginning of a still-shaky future for the privatization of U.S. manned space exploration.  

PayPal co-founder Elon Musk’s SpaceX sure has come a long way since its rocky beginnings — a string of early launch failures threatened to ground the project permanently.

According to a NASA announcement made on Monday, July 18, 2011, United Launch Alliance (UAL) will look into the possibility of launching astronauts into space with its Atlas V rocket.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, announced that it is building the “World’s Most Powerful Rocket”: the Falcon Heavy. And, it has the capabilities to carry astronauts.