An Inside Look at Dragon
By Keith Cowing on September 29, 2010 9:16 AM 3 Comments
SpaceX targets Nov. 8 launch for Falcon 9 and Dragon, Ken Kremer (with photos)

"SpaceX Corporation is retargeting the liftoff of the firm's next Falcon 9 rocket to early November. The launch includes the debut test flight of the first operational Dragon spacecraft built by SpaceX. Blast off would now take place about a week after the final scheduled flight of Space Shuttle Discovery - currently slated for Nov.1 - instead of a few days ahead that launch."

[link to nasawatch.com]

This will be significant...though I don't know why yet...

The first rocket mission by a private company to the International Space Station is to be launched on Saturday in what has been hailed as a "giant leap" for the commercialisation of space.

California-based SpaceX, run by South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, is attempting to become the first private venture to reach the $100 billion (£66 billion) outpost 240 miles above Earth.

It's Falcon 9 rocket and unmanned 19ft by 12ft Dragon capsule were due to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday morning. The launch was orginally planned for May 7 but faced delays.