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09-10-2008, 01:08 PM
By December, SpaceX plans to bring a nine-engine rocket to Cape Canaveral that company officials believe could be one of the next spacecraft to carry cargo to the Space Station.
SpaceX hopes this and future rockets can fill the gap between the end of the shuttle program and the start of flights under NASA's Constellation program.
"We plan to deliver and close that gap," Brian G. Mosdell, the SpaceX director of Florida Launch Operations, told the National Space Club in Cocoa Beach Tuesday.
The company, which has failed to orbit a rocket in three tries, has contracts for seven launches from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The company's first Falcon 9 rocket is under construction in Los Angeles. After arriving in December, it is expected to launch during the first quarter of 2009.
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SpaceX hopes this and future rockets can fill the gap between the end of the shuttle program and the start of flights under NASA's Constellation program.
"We plan to deliver and close that gap," Brian G. Mosdell, the SpaceX director of Florida Launch Operations, told the National Space Club in Cocoa Beach Tuesday.
The company, which has failed to orbit a rocket in three tries, has contracts for seven launches from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The company's first Falcon 9 rocket is under construction in Los Angeles. After arriving in December, it is expected to launch during the first quarter of 2009.
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