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Watch Rocket Lab send its first commercial rocket to space

sudshr47 November 12, 2018

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The private space race is heating up.

U.S. and New Zealand spaceflight company Rocket Lab successfully completed its first commercial launch called “It’s Business Time” on Sunday, sending seven payloads to orbit.

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula at 4:50 p.m., shortly reaching orbit afterward.

Rocket Lab’s second orbital Electron mission #ItsBusinessTime. A successful launch and more payloads on orbit. We’re opening access to spacepic.twitter.com/0HgJ1aNtdS

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SpaceX books its first passenger to fly around the moon

sudshr47 September 14, 2018

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Although SpaceX has a number of successful launches to its name, it’s still yet to reach that ultimate goal of sending a human to space.

As per a tweet on Thursday, the company has signed its first private passenger to fly on its BFR launch vehicle, in what would be “an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space.”

The BFR, which Elon Musk said can carry up to 100 people when it was first touted last year, will fly around the moon as part of the personal trip. 

SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle—an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space. Find out who’s flying and why on Monday, September 17pic.twitter.com/64z4rygYhk

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SpaceX is launching a secret mission to space Wednesday. Here’s what we know so far.

sudshr47 November 14, 2017

On Wednesday, SpaceX will launch a secret mission to space. 
The Elon Musk-founded spaceflight company is expected to launch a secret government payload known only as Zuma atop a Falcon 9 rocket at around 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday. 
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