Tomorrow, SpaceX Will Forever Transform Spaceflight

<![endif] Off World by Tom Ward and Jolene Creighton SpaceX/Wikimedia /1000710/F_1x1 Tomorrow (June 1, 2017) will be a landmark date for commercial space travel. SpaceX is set to become the first privately owned company to perform multiple orbital flights to space using the same aircraft. On 21st September 2014, using the Falcon 9 rocket, this same Dragon CRS-4 delivered 2.5 tons of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). Since, this time, it has been refurbished. The launch window for its second cargo flight opens at 5:55pm ET, and when it happens, this launch will transform humanity’s future in space—thusting us into an age where space is accessible to every individual, not just nations. CRS-4 Dragon About to Land. Image Credit: SpaceX, Wikimedia To break down the significance further, it is one of only a han...

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