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US space program poised to take next step

First private craft is scheduled for oft-delayed launch

By Brian Vastag and Marc Kaufman

 |  Washington Post  

  May 03, 2012

In a refurbished Air Force hangar at Cape Canaveral, engineers from NASA and commercial space company SpaceX this week pored over data from a launchpad test of a gleaming white rocket poised to be the next step in U.S. space strategy. The review may be the final hurdle before a much-delayed and highly anticipated launch - the first attempt to send a privately designed and built unmanned spacecraft to the international space station.

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