{"id":95,"date":"2005-11-19T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2005\/11\/19\/95\/"},"modified":"2005-11-19T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T00:42:00","slug":"95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2005\/11\/19\/95\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10101621\/from\/RS.2\/\">MSNBC.com<\/a> reports that SpaceX has set a date for the first launch of the Falcon 1:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After more than three years of development, an upstart competitor to the Goliaths of the global launch industry announced Friday that it would attempt its first blastoff in one week.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 1 rocket from Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is scheduled to lift off from a launch complex on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands at 9 a.m. local time on Nov. 26, which translates to 4 p.m. ET on Nov. 25. The launch window lasts four hours.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, as the company is known, was founded by software millionaire Elon Musk. In announcing the launch, Musk said he saw the launch as &#8220;the first steppingstone in reducing the cost of access to space.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>During Friday&#8217;s news conference at SpaceX&#8217;s headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., Musk said &#8220;approximately $100 million&#8221; has been invested in his company, with 98 percent of that coming from his own wealth. The other 2 percent came from &#8220;friends and family who were crazy enough to put some money into the company,&#8221; he joked.<\/p>\n<p>Musk already has plans to beef up his line of launch vehicles with a heavy-lift Falcon 9, which could conceivably be used for human spaceflight. Indeed, he told reporters that future generations of Falcon rockets would be used for &#8220;not just satellites, but really ultimately for human transportation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, one week and counting&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC.com reports that SpaceX has set a date for the first launch of the Falcon 1: After more than three years of development, an upstart competitor to the Goliaths of the global launch industry announced Friday that it would attempt &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2005\/11\/19\/95\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}