SpaceX Plans to Start Launching Rockets Every Two To Three Weeks (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday February 7, 2017 @04:40AM from the growing-fast dept.

Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks, its fastest rate since starting launches in 2010, once a new launch pad is put into service in Florida next week. From a report: The ambitious plan comes only five months after a SpaceX rocket burst into flames on the launch pad at the company's original launch site in Florida. SpaceX, controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, has only launched one rocket since then, in mid-January. "We should be launching every two to three weeks," SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said in an interview on Monday.

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Re: SpaceX plans to waste tons of fucking money by ShanghaiBill · 2017-02-07 05:34 · Score: 4, Insightful

and a rapidly growing middle class
Was that a joke?
Take your blinders off. The middle class may not be doing so well in America and Europe, but in the other 90% of the world it is expanding rapidly.