I was wondering about the next Falcon 9 launch, and lo and behold, an
update from two days ago, when it was last scheduled, saying it is now
rescheduled for December 7th:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...ay-101109.html

"SpaceX is targeting December 7th for the first-ever fight of our
Dragon spacecraft, with the 8th and 9th as backup dates," Kirstin
Brost, a spokeswoman for the Hawthorne, Calif.-based company,
said in a Nov. 8 e-mail. "We are submitting our request to the
[U.S.] Air Force today."

There is some stuff attributing some of the shift to the delays with
Shuttle, but that may simply be a game of schedule chicken:

"We have assets tied to shuttle, but we also think that additional
testing on Dragon would be valuable," she said in a Nov. 8 e-mail
to Space News.

Meanwhile, SpaceX is still awaiting regulatory approval from the
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the mission. The
company submitted its license application more than a year ago,
but the FAA is still reviewing data on the Dragon capsule's
planned atmospheric re-entry.

rick jones
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