Boing Boing » elon musk http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 00:38:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 SpaceX readies for launch this Saturday, May 19, 2012 http://boingboing.net/2012/05/18/spacex-readies-for-launch-this.html http://boingboing.net/2012/05/18/spacex-readies-for-launch-this.html#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:34 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=161695

If all goes according to plan, tomorrow, Saturday, May 19th, SpaceX will become the first commercial space flight company in history to head for the International Space Station. You can watch online, live, at SpaceX.com starting at 1:15 AM Pacific / 4:15 AM Eastern / 08:15 UTC. You can also follow SpaceX founder and CEO @elonmusk on Twitter. He'll live-tweet from mission control during launch.

Veteran space journalist Miles O'Brien covered the story in a recent PBS NewsHour segment.

And below, Miles and NewsHour host Hari Sreenivasan talk about the details of the mission, the engineering challenges and the other spaceflight companies vying for a chance at delivering cargo and people to low-Earth orbit.

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