Communicating via SpaceX

   If it fails, it could trigger doubts about NASA's decision to hand some of its responsibilities to a new generation of private space industry.  If it succeeds, NASA, could begin outsourcing some of its space missions to private companies, at a lower cost than what it now pays for a Russian Soyuz rocket to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).  Saturday, May 19, 2012 engineers, while sitting at the controls in Hawthorne, California, will launch a rocket that is sitting on a launch pad 2,600 miles away in Cape Canaveral, Fla.  The rocket known as Falcon 9 will carry a payload called the Dragon, a space capsule, into orbit.  Three days later the Dragon will rendevous with the ISS.  See also, http://www.nytimes.com/.