…they’ll have the first private flight to and rendezvous with the ISS. Tentatively scheduled for Feb 7th, but there’s still lots of critical tests to do on the capsule before it’s a sure thing.
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/09/spacex-gets-permission-to-send-dragon-to-iss/
This is absolutely fandamntastic. SpaceX is the company that seems to have it together the most. They’ve orbited and recovered a Dragon capsule, they’ve got plans to make it and the Dragon 9 stack fully reusable, and they are rocking it.
Here’s a vid they released a month or so ago, they’re aiming big. Anyone can put together a CGI movie, but these guys have extra cred because they have flying hardware:
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket with their Dragon capsule is scheduled to launch tomorrow morning at 3:55 a.m. Eastern Time and be docked with the ISS 3 days later. I’ll be at work so I won’t be able to watch the launch but NASA TV online will prolly be streaming it. 
Eh, 4:55 ET, isn’t it?
Prelaunch press conference is on now.
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You’re right, sorry I got the time wrong.
I set my alarm and got up 10 minutes before the launch attempt. It was pretty exciting, bummer about the abort. Better than a catastrophic failure, that’s for sure!
Anyone know when the next window is? I heard ‘in 3 days’ during the webcast, but I don’t know what time.
Next dates they are talking about is the 22nd with a backup date of the 23rd. NASA is a go for the 22nd. But they don’t say anything about a time because they are still checking to make sure the range is available. Article on CNN says that it will be early morning hours that the next attempt will be made.
Falcon 9 launch occurred at 3:44 Eastern time. Luckily I was up to get ready for work so I got to see this online. And it just achieved orbit. Beautiful launch.
Fantastic! We’re one step closer to Firefly!