SpaceX, USAF Eye Mid-2015 For Falcon 9 Full Certification

Credit: Falcon 9: SpaceX
The U.S. Air Force and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) are now targeting midyear for full certification of the launch upstart’s Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket to loft Pentagon payloads into orbit. Officials had hoped to achieve this goal by the end of last year, and a service statement says...

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