SpaceX Dragon Successfully Ends First Mission

[Guest]

NASA and SpaceX successfully completed their first contracted cargo space flight.

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[raytseng]

"successful" except a motor failed during launch causing them to have to ditch a satellite into short orbit and burn up; and future launches being suspended until they can figure out why 2 out of the 3 dragonX launches had problems.

No other article on the DragonX is calling this a full success. Milestone perhaps, but not a full success.

 

[The_Trutherizer]

Awesome. Finally the human spirit is at the proverbial steering wheel again. The government space programs of the world are great, but this is as it should be. Hiccup here and there or not. This is the future.

 

[mmstick]

[citation][nom]The_Trutherizer[/nom]Awesome. Finally the human spirit is at the proverbial steering wheel again. The government space programs of the world are great, but this is as it should be. Hiccup here and there or not. This is the future.[/citation]
The problem is the government doesn't really care about space programs. They are more worried about funding for worldly things rather than spacely things.

 

[eiskrystal]

You aren't creating jobs when you shunt government work to the private arena. If anything, there will be less overall jobs due to the lack of bureaucracy. Then you end up paying through the nose when you need their expertise yourself again.

I also look forward to the chinese buyout of your "american company".

 

[memadmax]

[citation][nom]eiskrystal[/nom]You aren't creating jobs when you shunt government work to the private arena. If anything, there will be less overall jobs due to the lack of bureaucracy. Then you end up paying through the nose when you need their expertise yourself again.I also look forward to the chinese buyout of your "american company".[/citation]

Comrade obama will be gone soon, what then?

 

[jerrspud]

"successful" except a motor failed during launch causing them to have to ditch a satellite into short orbit and burn up; and future launches being suspended until they can figure out why 2 out of the 3 dragonX launches had problems.

No other article on the DragonX is calling this a full success. Milestone perhaps, but not a full success.

You read it wrong. You think it said "successful mission" but it says "ended successfully". Each objective is measured individually. So the objective to return was successful.

True there was a malfunction, but the objective to reach station and deliver and retrieve was met. In fact, there is a rather large list of successful objectives SpaceX met this mission. The "satellite" was not a primary objective and not part of the NASA mission. Any other rocket would not even have made it to orbit with one engine down, and Falcon was designed to be able to reach orbit with two missing.
I'm not making excuses.. just offering perspective

 

[madjimms]

[citation][nom]eiskrystal[/nom]You aren't creating jobs when you shunt government work to the private arena. If anything, there will be less overall jobs due to the lack of bureaucracy. Then you end up paying through the nose when you need their expertise yourself again.I also look forward to the chinese buyout of your "american company".[/citation]
I actually agree with you.

 

[blackened144]

Dragon was launched on October 7 with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA said that it delivered 260 pounds of crew supplies, 390 pounds of scientific research, 225 pounds of hardware and "several" pounds of other supplies.

Thats an interesting payload.. And it reminds me that I need to call my guy and get a "several" grams of other supplies too.

 

[nebun]

what they need to do is get rid of that POS they call space station....it's such a waste of money....what have we learned??....nothing....how is this helping the humanity as a whole?...it is not....they could use that money to actually do some good down here on earth....leave space alone...it's not like we are going to go anywhere anytime soon....earth is and will be here for a very long, long, long, time