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, Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:37:39, Brian Thorn
posted:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:01:52 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

The SpaceX launch manifest shows three COTS Falcon-9/Dragon tests for
this year for NASA after the first test flight,

Perhaps an asterisk at the top was not noticed. SpaceX lists as Target
Date the date at which the hardware arrives at the launch site.

IIRC, the Inaugural Flight beat its currently-listed target date of
2009, albeit only by a gnat's-whisker. But perhaps the list refers to
the final arrival.

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