SpaceX Dragon Launch To ISS Set For April 30th

Spy Handler writes "NASA announced today a tentative April 30th date for SpaceX launch to the International Space Station on an unmanned cargo mission. 'Everything looks good as we head toward the April 30 launch date,' said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations. If successful, SpaceX will become the first private company to launch a space vehicle and dock with the ISS."

Re:Most Excellent

[Razgorov Prikazka]

It's just a matter of time you know... if enough people go there, it's just a waiting matter before:
  - space hippies go collect garbage (and re-invent the cradle2cradle concept, making nice new stuff from spacejunk);
  - greenpeace goes there with big solarsail-made-into-banners;
  - Al Gore will say he invented space and then make a movie about how terrible the whole spacejunk problem is;
  - We will see spacejunk-sceptics;
  And when they are all up in arms, here on /. we will discuss the next big thing... terraforming Mars. Someone will say that is a bad Idea, and I would say: It's just a matter of time you know... if enough people go there, it's just a waiting matter before:
  - Space hippies will go there hugging the marstrees
  - Greenpeace will go there and... well you get the point huh? :-D

Re:Arianespace

[crutchy]

it aint rocket science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TM-17 [wikipedia.org]