I have this amusing feeling like I am looking at a baby room full of baby-safe Ikea kitchen furniture. I suppose having astronauts safe in zero Gs is similar to keeping an uncoordinated baby safe while learning to eat... ( With that said, it does look modern and cool compared to something like the retired space shuttle. )
Who knows you might even find a CD drive in there somewhere, the obligatory USB jack for mp3/FLAC but I suspect you could encounter buffering issues with Slacker - as you approach lower orbit.
Just so how important real competition can be. From General Director Andrey V. Kalinovsky "said the state of the commercial launch market before SpaceX’s arrival in 2012-2013 allowed the Proton team to remain commercially viable despite its failures because there were few alternatives to Proton and Ariane 5" Price Cuts Part of Strategy To Win Back Proton Customers
SpaceX booked its first Moon mission—and it uses ridesharing - Quartz A moon mission in 2017. "Spaceflight plans to purchase launch vehicles and lease their cargo space to small satellite operators." "Last week, Spaceflight announced it had purchased its first rocket, a SpaceX Falcon 9."
Repaired SpaceX Rocket to Fly by Early December, Company Says - NBC News It sounds official. Back in action in December. Way too long. I doubt the company needed that long to correct the problem.
Yeah. That's a really long time to be grounded, and a decent hit to the bottom line, unless they can compress their backlog and catch up in 2016.
Still not posted on their (always slow to be updated) launch manifest. That continues to say NET September 2015.
I think you are underestimating the complexity of the fault tree analysis that they had to do. Also, the FAA still has to sign off on the final report. Next up is the full duration static fire at McGregor.
Some additional information SpaceX selects ORBCOMM-2 mission for Falcon 9’s Return To Flight http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/10/spacex-orbcomm-2-mission-falcon-9s-rtf/