{"id":296,"date":"2008-09-28T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/28\/private-space-flight-gets-closer\/"},"modified":"2008-09-28T18:09:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:09:13","slug":"private-space-flight-gets-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/28\/private-space-flight-gets-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Space Flight gets closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless I am mistaken, this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1222017419710&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">first time a non-governmental organization or business has managed to put anything in orbit.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Internet entrepreneur&#8217;s latest effort to make space launch more affordable paid off Sunday when his commercial rocket carrying a dummy payload was lofted into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fourth attempt by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, to launch its two-stage Falcon 1 rocket into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawthorne, California-based rocket maker was started by multimillionaire Elon Musk, who made his fortune as co-founder of the PayPal Inc. electronic payment system.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket carried a 364-pound (165-kilogram) dummy payload designed and built by SpaceX for the launch. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  Harbinger of things to come, I hope.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-296\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/28\/private-space-flight-gets-closer\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-296\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/28\/private-space-flight-gets-closer\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-296\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/28\/private-space-flight-gets-closer\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/28\/private-space-flight-gets-closer\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/28\/private-space-flight-gets-closer\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless I am mistaken, this is the first time a non-governmental organization or business has managed to put anything in orbit. 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