SpaceX Posts New Details of Dragon Spacecraft

It is time again to see if SpaceX can make it to space.
- LRK -

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In today's space news from SpaceRef:
-- SpaceX  <http://www.spacex.com/>Posts New Details of Dragon Spacecraft
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.nl.html?pid=23605

"The Dragon spacecraft is a pressurized capsule used for Earth to LEO transport
of pressurized cargo, unpressurized cargo, and/or crew members. Initiated internally by SpaceX
in 2005, Dragon will be utilized to fulfill our NASA COTS contract for demonstration of
cargo re-supply of the ISS."

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http://www.spacex.com/updates.php#demoflight_2_launch_update_6
DemoFlight 2 Update
*Posted March 5, 2007*

The launch window is now March 19th to 22nd (California time). During
extended ground testing in late February, one of our second stage thrust
vector control boards indicated a problem. Although our analysis showed
substantial margin for flight, we decided nonetheless to increase the
robustness of certain of the components and run a delta qualification.

The upgraded boards will be installed this week. If all goes well,
Falcon 1 will do a static fire next week and then launch in the week of
the 19th.

--Elon--

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I wish SpaceX good fortune as it would be another step to commercializing space.
Getting things to orbit cheaply is the hurdle we need to overcome.
- LRK -

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If we can go to LEO, can we build a home in space? - LRK -
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http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/index.html
Colonies in Space

Complete online book
by T. A. Heppenheimer
<http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/heppenheimer.html>

Copyright 1977, 2007
by T. A. Heppenheimer

The National Space Society is proud to present this online edition of
the complete text of the 1977 hardcover edition of the landmark book,
/Colonies in Space/. The key ideas are presented in Chapter 2
<http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/colonies_chap02.html>,
with the rest of the book an elaboration on those ideas. We were not
able to obtain permissions for many of the illustrations, but were able
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<http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/colorplates.html> in the
center of the book. See also our review
<http://www.nss.org/resources/books/non_fiction/NF_012_coloniesinspace.html>
of this book and our page about the author
<http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/heppenheimer.html>.

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Space Settlement Nexus

An all-volunteer effort <http://www.nss.org/settlement/committee.html>
including over 8,000 pages of reference materials
<http://www.nss.org/settlement/library.html>

*"The people of Earth have both the knowledge
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That was the stated conclusion of this NASA-sponsored study in 1975!
There are two things you need to know about space settlement:

* *We can do it, starting now. *
* *A future with space settlements is vastly better than one without them.*

We Can Do It

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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