Re: Test flight of Dragon spacecraft this week

From: John Burns (seesat@john.geek.nz)
Date: Wed Dec 08 2010 - 08:06:02 UTC

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    A close friend of mine works at SpaceX.
    
    Launch is expected at 6am California time on Wednesday.
    
    There will be a live webcast of the launch, orbits, and reentry,
    starting at around 5:15am PST tomorrow morning on the SpaceX website
    www.spacex.com and continuing through the mission until around
    10:00am.
    
    The rocket will deliver the first Dragon Capsule into low Earth orbit,
    where it will circle the Earth 3 times and then re-enter for a
    spash-down and recovery just off the California Coast. If successful,
    the next Dragon capsule will launch and dock with the International
    Space Station next year on the first of a series of post Space Shuttle
    resupply missions.
    
    Cheers
    
    John Burns
    http://www.john.geek.nz
    
    On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Robert Holdsworth <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
    > Sorry you are correct, Wednesday this week earliest.
    >
    > No time to go into more detail just now sorry
    >
    > Robert
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Rob Dale" <rdale@skywatch.org>
    > To: "Robert Holdsworth" <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz>; "Seesat List"
    > <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>
    > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:36 AM
    > Subject: RE: Test flight of Dragon spacecraft this week
    >
    >
    >> Are you sure? Everything coming from SpaceX I can find still says this
    >> week -- do you have any inside info to share?
    >>
    >> http://tinyurl.com/232ob9o
    >>
    >> - Rob
    >>
    >>> -----Original Message-----
    >>> From: seesat-l-bounces+rdale=skywatch.org@satobs.org [mailto:seesat-l-
    >>> bounces+rdale=skywatch.org@satobs.org] On Behalf Of Robert Holdsworth
    >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 1:10
    >>> To: Seesat List
    >>> Subject: Re: Test flight of Dragon spacecraft this week
    >>>
    >>> Postponed to Wednesday next week earliest.
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