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Crack open the bubbly: Despite earlier concerns over weather and some initial technical difficulties, SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched and achieved Earth orbit. And they did it just moments before their 3pm deadline.
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It’s too early to say whether SpaceX has collected the data from this that they were looking for, but the Falcon 9 success seems like great news for privatized space exploration, especially in light of NASA’s budget slashes.
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