Space X February launch delayed

Okay, this February 7th was going to be a big deal, a test of the Space X Dragon capsule (unmanned for this launch) to dock with the ISS, thus ending the gap of dependence on the Russians to both send stuff up to the ISS (and eventually people as well).

It’s a milestone event. Seeing it slip makes you worry. But if SpaceX is just wanting to make super, extra sure, that nothing goes wrong, well, you can understand…

SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 flight with the Dragon spaceship – a mission which is expected to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) – is slipping in order to allow for due diligence “safety checks” ahead of launch. SpaceX’s decision to slip what was a February 7 launch came after comments noting their sense of responsibility in returning US crewed access to LEO.

Filed under the topic Uncategorized on January 17th 2012 at 3:12 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.