{"id":5609,"date":"2012-10-08T07:02:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2012-10-08T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T14:04:30","slug":"congratulations-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/congratulations-spacex","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/08\/science\/space\/spacex-to-send-rocket-holding-cargo-to-space-station.html?_r=0\">New York Time<\/a> reported Space Exploration Technologies of Hawthorne, Calif. \u2014 SpaceX, for short \u2014 launched its Falcon 9 rocket on schedule at 8:35 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443482404578043100196815928.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported, \u201ctrouble-free countdown followed by liftoff at 8:35 p.m. ET, precisely as scheduled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., the NASA administrator said, \u201cIt actually marks the beginning of true commercial spaceflight to take cargo to the International Space Station for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a milestone in the relationship between public and private enterprise. The handoff of what public enterprise, NACA\/NASA, pioneered, developed and brought to maturity, to private enterprises capable of lowering the costs of space travel with ambitions to do more than stay in low earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, to Elon Musk, who believed it was possible, and went ahead and proved all the nay sayers wrong. This is an example of how one man\u2019s vision and tenacity has changed the way we perceive the world. Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Time reported Space Exploration Technologies of Hawthorne, Calif. \u2014 SpaceX, for short \u2014 launched its Falcon 9 rocket on schedule at 8:35 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Wall Street Journal reported, \u201ctrouble-free countdown followed by liftoff at 8:35 p.m. ET, precisely as scheduled.\u201d Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,45,16,439,8],"tags":[732,735,731,730,733,734,729,457],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-finance","category-open-source","category-scientific-freedom","category-space","tag-commercial-spaceflight","tag-elon-musk","tag-international-space-station","tag-maj-gen-charles-f-bolden-jr","tag-naca","tag-nasa","tag-space-exploration-technologies","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}