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SpaceX Launches Test Rocket December 08, 2010 | WMFE - Space Exploration Technologies launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Wednesday morning. The rocket lifted off at 10:43 in a demonstration test flight for NASA. Engineers say the capsule, named Dragon, will orbit the Earth twice then splash down in the Pacific Ocean about 500 miles off the Mexican coast. This marks the first time a commercial aerospace company has attempted to recover a spacecraft re-entering from orbit. The company, known as SpaceX, is among the firms NASA is contracting to haul supplies, and eventually astronauts, to the International Space Station. NASA is retiring its space shuttle program next year.
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