SpaceX Wins Big NASA Contract

[charlierosefan]

http://fredstechblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/spacex-wins-big-nasa-contract.html

[tokenadult]

Los Angeles Times story:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rocket25-2008dec25,0,5...

[Prrometheus]

Fantastic! Congratulations Elon!

A big win for the private space industry, and a big win for taxpayers.

[jedc]

Their big test will be the first launch of the Falcon 9 rocket early next year. It took 4 launches for a completely successful Falcon 1 launch; hopefully they'll have even quicker success with Falcon 9.