Witnify Blog http://blog.witnify.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:29:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 NASA Astronaut Ken Bowersox: “Turned loose and allowed to do great things” http://blog.witnify.com/?p=9582 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=9582#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:45:30 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=9582 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piJLbBPMf30?rel=0

Former NASA astronaut Ken Bowersox explains the unique engineering atmosphere SpaceX has because it's privately funded. He comments on other government funded research facilities limited by the bureaucracy they have to deal with. Bowersox was appointed vice president of Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance at SpaceX in 2009.

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Watch the Falcon 1's engine test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3 West. The SpaceX rocket successfully launched on September 28, 2008.

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk gives us a detailed tour of the research facility and explains the technology behind the Falcon 9 and Falcon 1 rockets, and the Dragon spacecraft. The Falcon 1 rocket created by SpaceX successfully launched on September 28, 2008.

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