SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Make It To Orbit

jnaujok writes "This morning the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 10:43 Eastern time, after an earlier launch had been scrubbed because of a bad telemetry feed. A little over 9 minutes later, the Dragon capsule separated from the second stage into its intended orbit. Part of the COTS (Commercial access To Space) program, this is the first test of the Dragon capsule by SpaceX to prove it can be used to ferry supplies to the ISS. The Dragon capsule will make two or three orbits before returning to Earth about four hours after launch."

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Re:supply lines to ISS already secure

[LWATCDR]

Well since Slashdot is a site hosted in the US and the posts are in English the answer is yes we mean secured.
The Ariane isn't manned and Russia isn't hasn't always been friendly. Dragon will give the US back manned transport to the ISS after the Shuttle is retired.
It seems really odd to me to not expect any US bias on a website based in the US and in English. It is sort of like bitching the the BBCs TopGear doesn't have any many US cars on it or a site in France and in French is biased to the French view point.