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SpaceX Falcon Update With Pictures

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-for-the-rockets dept.

Toren Altair writes "SpaceX made good progress with their Falcon 9 rocket. Check the progress with pictures. 'Today we fitted the F9 skirt to the fuel tank end of the 1st stage. Also had movement on the erector, with the upper aluminum truss just coming back from being painted. Activity on the floor is constant and will remain so throughout the week and weekend as we prepare the F9 structures for shipping to Texas for testing before they head to the Cape.'"

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  1. SpaceX == Fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    These clowns still can't manage to get a vehicle into orbit without failure of 20 percent with some fifty years of prior work to copy and of smarter people showing them how and 50 years of computing, material science, and every other relevant technological advancement.

    High Five Ayn Rand fanboys. Keep on jerking off to Atlas Shrugged and babbling about 'teh triumph of teh private sector'.

    NASA was built on private sector companies. But the secret of NASA's success was they hired actually competent companies. Not retards like the ones running the SpaceX fiasco.