2nd SpaceX Demo Flight Slated For Feb. 7

TheNextCorner writes with the news that "Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)'s second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight will be Feb. 7, 2012. Pending completion of final safety reviews, testing and verification, NASA also has agreed to allow SpaceX to send its Dragon spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) in a single flight." Update: 12/10 06:41 GMT by T : Reader BenJCarter adds a link to an L.A. Times article on the ISS rendezvous (with a great photo).

$57 million per launch,

[Spy Handler]

23,000 pounds of payload into LEO (13,000 pounds if you don't count Dragon capsule itself)

That's damn cheap! [airspacemag.com]

Re:NASA intern, SpaceX Elon

[khallow]

And since you're willing to post on the intarwebs, I've approved you to stick your head in a blender. The Dragon is currently unmanned and when it is finally used for manned space flight, not likely to send people to the ISS as part of that first mission.