Outer space is sweet. Rockets are sweet. This is not exactly relevant to what the Night Move is doing, but all this coolness simply cannot go unreported. Discovery News' Irene Klotz wrote yesterday about a privately built rocket that its creator wants to sell to NASA. The creator is a web developer, instrumental in the development of PayPal, among other things. He started a company called Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and built a rocket that's now in successful testing stages.
Talk about being able to do anything you put your mind to.
The current shuttle is to be retired in 2010, because it's old and unsafe, and the new one NASA is developing won't be ready until 2015. Meanwhile, we will soon need a way to access the almost-finished $100 billion International Space Station. Without depending on (and paying billions to) the Russians to transport us there, we need another solution.
Enter: Private rocket builder Elon Musk -- a true Rocket Man, if you will.
Read all about it here.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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