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SpaceX Reaches Orbit with Falcon 1 - Flight 4 (full Video Including Elon Musk Statement)

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SpaceX is the only private company to ever reach earth orbit with their Falcon 1 rocket. This is the FULL 40 minute webcast from about T-10 minutes until well after SECO. We didn't want to cut out the chorus of cheering after the SpaceX crew realized that they had just made history!

While Scaled Composites did reach space twice and thus winning the Ansari X PRIZE, they did not actually reach orbit. The Falcon 1 with its simulated payload is the first private vehicle to reach orbit on Sunday September 28th, 2008 at 23:31 UTC.

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SpaceX Reaches Orbit with Falcon 1 - Flight 4 (full Video Including Elon Musk Statement)

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  • Excellent job ...

    Excellent job SpaceX! You are definitely inspiring all of us including our young children who have also been following your achievements and much anticipated success! Congratulations from all of us!

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    SpaceX could surpass NASA at this rate! :D

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  • congratulations its ...

    congratulations its the only word i can say..
    <3

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  • Fantastic job ...

    Fantastic job SpaceX! American human space flight is now in your capable hands for the next several years. This is just the beginning. I am proud American private enterprise is reaching for the stars.

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  • This is FANTASTIC! ...

    This is FANTASTIC!
    GREAT JOB TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN SPACEX!

    Well done!

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  • It was a big ...

    It was a big weekend for space. I think China's fist EVA took the spotlight, but I'm with you, we (I mean SpaceX) should have been a little more publicized.

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  • well done spaceX!!! ...

    well done spaceX!!!!!!!

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  • I may be wrong with ...

    I may be wrong with the last thing I said in my previous comment. No offense to anyone out there.

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  • Incredible. But why ...

    Incredible. But why is this news so low key? Is the American public distracted on something else and not realized that they made history? Then again, because it's probably that it's a Corporate Private achievement, and not a national thing.

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  • A huge ...

    A huge congratulations to all Spacex employees. Aviation came as far as it did due to visionaries Like Elon and his team. If space is ever going to truely develop it will take the dedication of people like you. Unfortunately there are way too many people that do not recognize how important this work is to mankinds future existance. I am a pilot flying cargo jets but wish I could be contributing to your efforts. Keep at it for all of us who wish we could.....Thanks all !!

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  • We make a lot out ...

    We make a lot out of the fact that they did this all internally, and with private funding. But we should not overlook the fact that they have benefited from an enormous amount if information resulting from decades of NASA launch development. SpaceX is carrying a torch that was lighted by the efforts of the many scientist and engineers who came before them.

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  • Gl with flight 5! ...

    Gl with flight 5! Dont rest on the laudrels.

    But yes, it's very exciting, I think there's good room for cost reductions in the space industry.

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  • This was a long ...

    This was a long road for SpaceX but there is much more to come. SpaceX is going to blow everyone else right out of the water!! I am very proud of my husband for all the time and hard work he has put in. I love you babe

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  • The ones SpaceX ...

    The ones SpaceX builds is alot cheaper than NASA's

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  • SpaceX does not get ...

    SpaceX does not get help from NASA. This is all done by the men and women who work for SpaceX

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