In the rocket’s first three years, four of the seven Falcon 9 launches were part of the ISS Commercial Resupply Service. The importance of this stream of resupply missions can also be seen in the launch statistics. This gave the company plenty of opportunities to refine the Falcon 9 design and its most impressive innovation: the first stage can travel back down to Earth, make a controlled landing, and be reused. For the first time, SpaceX had a reliable early customer and a guaranteed source of income for the years ahead. NASA had previously agreed to contract SpaceX for 12 future cargo missions to the ISS with Dragon, and now the company had proved that it could actually deliver on them. “This is going to be recognized as a significantly historical step forward in space travel.” “Assuming this is successful then we look forward to a steady stream of cargo flights to the station under our contract,” he said at a NASA press conference, prior to the launch. Just before launch, he famously told CBS News, “I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.”īut even back then, he was clearly quietly confident that the ISS mission would cement his company’s future. The company’s founder and CEO, Elon Musk, knew this too. Amazingly, it was only the third ever flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, and the second for the Dragon capsule, and a successful docking in orbit would be crucial to proving that after a decade of rocket development, that SpaceX had a viable business model. SpaceX had a lot riding on the success of COTS (“Commercial Orbital Transportation Services”) Demo Flight 2, as the mission was known. The album reached #17 in America, though it faltered in the U.K., getting to just #36.SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches on May 22, 2012. However, they had lacked a pop hit that many of their peers had achieved.Īnd although the ethereal “I’d Love To Change The World” peaked at just #40 in the U.S., becoming their biggest success in the States, it further established them on FM radio, helping A Space In Time go Platinum. In America, their three previous efforts all had solid success, thanks to their performance at Woodstock and subsequent exposure in the festival’s film. and Columbia Records in the U.S., Ten Years After, comprised of vocalist-songwriter-guitarist Alvin Lee, bass guitarist Leo Lyons, keyboardist Chick Churchill, and drummer Ric Lee, had consistently achieved Top 10 sales in their native U.K. It includes their best known track, “I’d Love To Change The World.” At the time the album was released on Chrysalis in the U.K. The 1971 title returned on 2-CDs and 2-LP Half-Speed Master 180g vinyl on March 17, 2023, via Chrysalis Records.Ī Space In Time, the band’s sixth, and best selling album, was originally released in August 1971, and saw the band taking a more melodic direction from previous efforts. Leonard Cohen’s “Gloomy” ‘Songs of Love and Hate’: A Look Backīritish classic rock legends Ten Years After’s classic album, A Space In Time, has gotten a belated 50th Anniversary remix.Bobbi Ercoline, Woman on Iconic ‘Woodstock’ LP Cover, Dies.Carl Palmer Talks About Emerson, Lake and Palmer.Radio Hits in 1982: Top 40 Was Still Rockin’.When The Smithereens Turned It Up to ’11’.‘Body Heat’: 1981’s Double Dealing Thriller.Steve Hackett Sets More Dates of His ‘Genesis Revisited’ Tour.Bruce Springsteen Adds Dates For 2023 Tour With E Street Band.Peter Gabriel Adds North American Dates in Support of New Studio Album, ‘i/o’.When Eddie Money and Wife, Laurie, Renewed Their Wedding Vows.Best Weekly Singles Charts of All-Time: March 1970 Edition.Bonnie Raitt Rebounds in the ‘Nick of Time’.9 (More) Signature Rock Classics That Weren’t U.S.Bruce Springsteen Receives National Medal of Arts in White House Ceremony.Prog-Rockers Barclay James Harvest Reissue an Innovative LP as a Box Set.Sly Stone, 80, to Publish Memoir, ‘Thank You’.The Yardbirds, with Both Beck and Page, in ‘Blow-Up’.Rush ‘Signals’ 40th Anniversary Edition Coming.
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