OAK HILL -- Although we have had to say good-bye to the space shuttle program, apparently all is not lost across Mosquito Lagoon. At the launch site at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station stood a Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off Sunday night from Kennedy Space Center for the International Space Station.
This will be the first of possibly 12 re-supply missions by the private rocket company SpaceX.
They have a contract from NASA worth over a billion dollars and they are working hard to qualify to take astronauts to the station soon. Attached are pictures of this rocket heading up to ISS with hundreds of pounds of food,clothing.lab equipment and supplies and vehicle hardware in a Dragon capsule.The capsule has previously docked at the ISS on a test in May just to show NASA they could do it.
Dragon should be docking at the ISS sometime Wednesday, and will parachute into the Pacific Ocean the end of October with almost 2,000 pounds of used crew supplies and student experiments. It is quite a good feeling to be able to witness this feat when all around this part of Florida had almost given up. Congratulations to all on the big launch. I was so fortunate to witness it as were many of you who live along the coastal Central Florida waters.