First private rocket in Earth orbit

by ARTiFactor on Sep. 29th, 2008
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Private rocket achieves Earth orbit

SpaceX’s Falcon 1 spacecraft made history last night as the first privately developed launch vehicle to reach earth orbit from the ground. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (Space X) was created four years ago with $120 million of private funding, 80% from Elon Musk. Elon Musk (born 28 June 1971) is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of PayPal and SpaceX. He is also chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity.

You can learn more about Space X by going to SpaceX.com

Source: TechCrunch.

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SLC says:

I really didn't know that at all and they video it really great to watch. I learned a lot from watching the video.

posted on Sun, 10/26/2008 - 1:25pm

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