Space Travel
11, Feb, 2012

Private Rocket Launch Delayed

Written by spacetravel.org   
Sunday, 04 December 2005 19:53
The launch of Space Exploration TechnologiesÂ’ Falcon 1, the first privately funded orbital rocket, has been postponed to mid-December. An open valve allowed liquid oxygen to boil off. When there was too little oxygen to keep it cool, helium, which is used for pressurisation, also vented away.