"The Dragon cargo vessel developed by private firm SpaceX has been tentatively cleared to launch from Cape Canaveral on April 30, 2012, and is set to rendezvous with the space station a few days thereafter, NASA’s associate administrator of space operations William H. Gerstenmaier said Monday.
The entire mission will take 21 days, at which point the Dragon cargo vessel will re-enter Earth and plunge into the Pacific Ocean, to be recovered and re-used again.
“Everything looks good as we head toward the April 30th launch date,” Gerstenmaier said in a press conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, broadcast live online on NASA’s website Monday afternoon.
However, Gerstenmaier said that while he was “impressed with the overall work” both NASA and private firm SpaceX had done to prepare for the historic mission, there remained “one simulation to do,” and “software testing.”
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