OnSite Narrative By Wes Oleszewski, ANN Space Correspondent
Cape Canaveral, T-02:29:20 and Counting: The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle stands poised on the on the pad - GOX'ing billows of white vapor into the humid Florida night. Gleaming white with its upper two thirds illuminated by floodlights, the vehicle has finished fueling. Occasionally large chunks of ice can be seen falling from the side of the vehicle in a scene reminiscent of the early days of rocketry at the Cape. That is indeed appropriate, as tonight's mission is one of a flight test nature rather than one of satellite placement, or planetary exploration. On the line tonight is the budding Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) concept and the launch system put together by a "pr