http://www.metafilter.com/tags/falcon9 Posts tagged with 'falcon9' at MetaFilter. Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/75231/SpaceX%2Dfinally%2Dmakes%2Dit%2Dto%2Dorbit <a href="http://www.spacex.com/F1-004.php">SpaceX's fourth flight was successful.</a> <a href="http://www.scaled.com/">Scaled Composites'</a> X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded hop into space. <a href="http://spacex.com/">SpaceX</a> just took the next big step and inserted a dummy payload into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity">orbit</a>. Next, they will launch the much larger <a href="http://spacex.com/falcon9.php">Falcon 9</a> and later test out the human-carrying <a href="http://spacex.com/dragon.php">Dragon</a>. CEO <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk">Elon Musk</a> also enjoys dabbling in <a href="https://www.paypal.com/">banking</a> and exotic <a href="http://www.teslamotors.com/">electric cars</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75231 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800 COTS dragon elonmusk falcon falcon1 falcon9 paypal private space spaceshipone spacex tesla xprize b1tr0t