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    "title": "A Thousand Dollars per Pound, Delivered to Orbit",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2011-04-11 00:10:01 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Reaching Earth orbit and only spending a thousand dollars per pound to get your spacecraft there--it's long been the shining goal of the launch business. Tuesday, Elon Musk, the founder of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), made an announcement promising a new launch beast that could reach that mark in a couple of years--and shake up the space industry. He unveiled a new launch vehicle dubbed \"Falcon Heavy.\" It's a derivative of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which successfully delivered a pressurized capsule into orbit in December after a successful first flight last summer. But Musk says the Heavy will be able to blast five times as much payload into orbit.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/tech-behind-new-spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-5518955?click=pm_news\">SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket - Private Space Technology - Popular Mechanics</a></em>.</p>\n"
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