SpaceX Launches First Commercial Vehicle to ISS
After delays and an aborted launch attempt, the SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch went off successfully the morning of May 22nd, 2012.
The Falcon 9 rocket's engines ignite on the SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, May 22, 2012. http://pic.twitter.com/lL54HsUu
The crowd cheers as Falcon 9 lights up the sky #DragonLaunch http://pic.twitter.com/4Ihdxsvc
Falcon 9/Dragon launched successfully at 3:44 AM eastern. The Dragon spacecraft separated and the solar arrays deployed. #DragonLaunch
Falcon 9 over Florida (photo credit: Joffre Isturiz) #DragonLaunch http://pic.twitter.com/4qD5VRPy
View from SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft looking outward at one of two solar array panels in the process of deploying. http://pic.twitter.com/Ys2yBQRe
"We're on the brink of a new future... that opens up the skies to endless possibilities," @NASA's Charles Bolden http://pic.twitter.com/6W8H4ccS
The private space industry has arrived: SpaceX has orders for 40 rocket launches, worth some $4 billionNow that SpaceX's Falcon 9 has proven that private enterprise can fling rockets into space , and potentially dock with the International ...
The @SpaceX Dragon really did look like a dragon lighting up the sky as it ascended. Amazing. #DragonLaunch #NASASocial
If this doesn't inspire a new generation of space explorers, nothing will! @NASA - Pic of the day nasa.gov/multimedia/ima… #nasasocial @spacex
Huge thanks to @NASASocial and @SpaceX for the opportunity of a lifetime, a front seat at history in the making, and dreams coming true.
