Second time lucky for SpaceX
The rocket developed by the founder of PayPal (Elon Musk) has blasted off from a remote island in the South Pacific, bolstering hopes of cheaper fares to fly cargo, and eventually people, into space.
The 21m booster rocket called Falcon 1 lifted off from Omelek Island, a US military missile test site that is part of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, and arrived in space minutes later. The launch was not perfect, but certainly pretty good.
The two-stage Falcon 1 rocket shot spaceward from its Pacific island launch site at 9:10 p.m....
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