SpaceX Launch to Space Station Slips to April

1st Private Spaceship Flight to Space Station May Slip to April: NASA

by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer

Date: 02 February 2012 Time: 05:37 PM ET

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Artist’s rendition of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft with solar panels fully deployed on orbit. CREDIT: SpaceX View full size image

The launch of the first privately built spaceship to the International Space Station is targeted for late March, but will most likely lift off in early April, a top NASA space station official said today (Feb. 2).
The unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by California-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), was originally scheduled to launch on a demonstration flight to the orbiting complex on Feb. 7, but the company announced last month that more time is needed to prepare the vehicle for flight.

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