One small part of May is poised in becoming one giant leap for space capitalism as NASA approved the Sunday evening launch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule. The scheduled trip comes somewhat over four several weeks following the project effectively completed a docking test through the unmanned private spacecraft using the Worldwide Space Station. The Sunday flight -- named CRS-1 -- may have the Dragon capsule piggybacking on the Falcon 9 rocket to punch with the atmosphere while transporting greater than a 1000 pounds of cargo. The capsule will pier using the station for around three days prior to being delivered back to Earth to provide greater than a lot of scientific samples and used hardware in the ISS. The launch is scheduled for 8:35PM ET from Cape Canaveral Air Pressure Station barring a outburst from Nature (we have also seen our share of aborted SpaceX Dragon launches before so we are keeping our proverbial fingers entered). NASA states that Orbital Sciences' competing Cygnus spacecraft and Antares rocket will even create a demo flight later this season.
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