SpaceX Falcon 9 Lifts Off
By Irene Klotz iklotz@rocketmail.com
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
A Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 carrying the company’s Dragon capsule blasted off from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., this morning for the first test flight of NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.
The rocket’s nine liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene-fueled Merlin engines roared to life at 10:43 a.m. EST, ...
