Wednesday, April 6, 2011

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: SpaceX Announces Launch Date For The World's Most Powerful Rocket....NSI News Source Info # 1776

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: SpaceX Announces Launch Date For The World's Most Powerful Rocket....NSI News Source Info # 1776
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - April 6, 2011: Today, Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the Falcon Heavy, the world's largest rocket.

“Falcon Heavy will carry more payload to orbit or escape velocity than any vehicle in history, apart from the Saturn V moon rocket, which was decommissioned after the Apollo program. This opens a new world of capability for both government and commercial space missions,” Musk told a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

“Falcon Heavy will arrive at our Vandenberg, California, launch complex by the end of next year, with liftoff to follow soon thereafter.


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