SpaceX Will Be ‘Biggest Launch Since Space Shuttle,’ Industry Exec Says | Talking Points Memo

It’s the final countdown. Again.

SpaceX, the spacefaring company founded by billionaire Web entrepreneur Elon Musk, will try again early Tuesday morning to launch an unmanned rocket and cargo capsule into Earth’s orbit, with the goal of becoming the first-ever commercial firm to dock a spacecraft with the International Space Station. The craft will also attempt to ferry 1,014 pounds of non-critical supplies to the astronauts currently abord the space station.


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