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SpaceX Gets Operational License For Cape Canaveral

Posted by kdawson on from the throwing-big-stones dept.

FiggyOO writes "For those of you who witnessed the launch of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket, launch 3, you will be glad to hear that SpaceX has received a license to launch from space complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the Florida coast. This Launch complex is just south of launch pads 39A and 39B which have been used to launch the space shuttles, and will continue in that role for a few more years. This launch complex will enable SpaceX to launch the much-anticipated Falcon 9 rocket, which will eventually carry the Dragon capsule. In doing so, SpaceX hopes to fill the void between the end of the shuttle program and the coming of the Constellation. They have already begun moving into the launch complex, including moving a 125,000 gallon liquid oxygen tank on the back of a semi." We've been following Elon Musk's SpaceX for years.

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  1. Awesome! by OverlordQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this so that when it explodes again everybody gets to watch?

    I keed, I keed.

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  2. Re:holy damn! by oldspewey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like how he has a sign on the front bumper that says "oversize load" ... but it is utterly dwarfed by the oversize load he is carrying.

    That one goes in the archives of the department of redundancy department archives right next to "intense blazing fireball" and "Danger! Complete absence of light!"

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  3. Re:That's gotta be one of the weakest Photoshops.. by Thelasko · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...I've ever seen. They didn't even bother to antialias the selection around the legs.

    Don't be that guy. The joke is old!

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  4. X! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Funny

    SpaceX proudly brings us back to when a nice big capital "X" on the end was the way to go for making words seem edgy, hip, and futuristic. We've well and truly escaped the reign of those posers, the prefix lowercase "e" and his redheaded spawn the little "i".

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    1. Re:X! by verbamour · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah, SpaceX is so Baby Boomer (trying to pass as Gen-X). They need to grasp the next younger form.

      Ladies and gentlemen, I present SpaceY.

  5. Re:If SpaceX comes through, Orion is dead.. by compro01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aside from the small fact they are build with completely different purposes in mind. It would be like pitching to the army to replace their tanks with machine-gun-equipped motorcycles.

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