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Muhammed El-Hasan
on August 31, 2010 10:19 AM | | Comments (0) |

Hawthorne-based spaceX just keeps moving forward on its historic effort to reshape space travel and the commercial sector's role in it.


SpaceX Asks For Oct. 23 Dragon Launch Slot

(AviationWeek.com) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has requested Oct. 23 on the 45th Space Wing's calendar for launch of its second Falcon 9 rocket, which will aim to place a Dragon cargo capsule into orbit.

The flight is the first of up to three launches planned under SpaceX's $278-million Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract with NASA, which is intended to help pay for the rocket and capsule's design, development and flight testing.

Read more on SpaceX's launch plans.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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