Sept. 28, 2008 - Kwajalein Atoll.
SpaceX confirms Falcon 1 has reached orbit, making the first privately-developed all-liquid fuel rocket to achieve this feat. So it is sweet success at last for the rocket after three earlier setbacks.
"Definitely one of the best days of my life," SpaceX founder Elon Musk says.
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*Energia-Buran system rollout to launch pad
*U.S. STS and Soviet Buran Shuttle Launch comparison
*Energia Data
*OK-GLI flight test and land problem with landing gear
*Baikal rollout
STS-88 / ISS Assembly Mission 2A
Orbiter: OV-105 Endeavour
Payload: Node 1 "Unity" - SAC-A satellite
Mission: First assembly mission to the new international space station, dock Unity with Zarya russian module and perform 3 spacewalks
from: www.shuttlesource.co m
STS-51I was the 20th space shuttle mission and 6th mission using orbiter Discovery.
First retrieval, repair, and relaunch of a satellite in orbit.
STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission --- (February 11, 2000) Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off at 11:44 a.m. CST to begin the STS-99 mission to map the Earth.