title: History in the making link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/history-in-the-making/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 2794 created: 2012/05/22 13:06:00 created_gmt: 2012/05/22 17:06:00 comment_status: closed post_name: history-in-the-making status: publish post_type: post

History in the making

At 03:44 EDT today (May 22, 2012) the SpaceX Falcon 9 with a Dragon capsule became the first commercially owned rocket to launch on a mission to the international space station. Official story is here. As noted in an article over on The Register, this launch appears to be a first for another reason: the use of metric units by mission control in describing the rockets flight path. US space programme in shock metric conversion by Lester Haines.

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