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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cool!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), which designs and launches rockets as well as spacecraft, said on Tuesday it signed the first commercial contract to launch the world's most powerful rocket.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/30/spacex-signs-contract-to-launch-worlds-most-powerful-rocket/?intcmp=trending">http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/30/spacex-signs-contract-to-launch-worlds-most-powerful-rocket/?intcmp=trending</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Excellent, good luck SpaceX. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is what we have needed for a long time. When the government builds rockets, they intentionally spread the work across as many states as possible, to get the congress members to buy in. This is inefficient and expensive. Having a single company do the rocket gets around that problem. I have renewed hope of lower cost launches. The question now is whether it is low enough to do more and better stuff in space. That remains an open question.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>