COTS Demo Flight 1

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Posted in Images on December 22nd, 2010 by atkinson | Report This Post |

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8 Dec 2010, 10:43:00 am
“SpaceX launches (pictured) and recovers the Dragon spacecraft during its first test flight, the first commercially-developed spacecraft to successfully return after orbiting the Earth.” (Wiki)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTS_Demo_Flight_1

www.spacex.com/downloads/cots1-20101206.pdf

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10 Responses to COTS Demo Flight 1

hufnmouth (UID# 3256) 0 0
December 10, 2010 at 7:29 pm

Love it. This is fantastic. In 50 years, commercial spaceflight agencies will dominate. They’ll also continue to fight government legislation after botched attempts to police their own industry. Sure enough, there will be a huge disaster in space caused by some bloated company and some feckless CEO that would rather boat race that fix the problem.

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- atkinson (UID# 2026) 0 0
  December 12, 2010 at 3:20 pm
  
  Elon Musk is becoming a hero, to me!
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  - atkinson (UID# 2026) 0 0
    December 12, 2010 at 3:30 pm
    
    Ops… And Burt Rutan, Robert Bigelow, etc…
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    - rsixidor (UID# 950) 0 0
      December 22, 2010 at 12:41 am
      
      I think you missed the point of his post, but these guys are awesome (I’m assuming these are the guys that are doing the commercial flights).
      
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      - atkinson (UID# 2026) 0 0
        December 22, 2010 at 9:18 am
        
        I think the point is: “the first commercially-developed spacecraft to successfully return after orbiting the Earth.”
        Elon Musk is the guy who made this!
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      - rsixidor (UID# 950) 0 0
        December 22, 2010 at 11:00 pm
        
        I think he was making a point about industries policing themselves poorly and how this will almost certainly go that way as well.
      - atkinson (UID# 2026) 0 0
        December 24, 2010 at 3:18 pm
        
        Sorry, RSIxidor, I don’t understand your comment, Google translator is a SHIT to portuguese…
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bushman (UID# 5653) 0 0
December 22, 2010 at 4:03 am

Until I read the comment, I thought this was Madonna’s new dildo. Then I realized, it’s too small for her.

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- brushaway (UID# 430) 0 0
  December 22, 2010 at 3:26 pm
  
  im sure madonnas tighter than your mum.
  
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- lukev1-5 (UID# 1029) 0 0
  December 22, 2010 at 7:48 pm
  
  A joke about Madonna?
  
  You must be lost, this is not the late 90s.
  
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