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SpaceX Rocket's Historic Launch Engineered By Leonia HS Grad
A New Jersey native played an integral role in the recent launch of the NASA/SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Sam DiMaggio, a 1985 graduate of Leonia High School, is principal dynamics engineer on the SpaceX project. The sophisticated rocket's May 30 flight from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., carried its first-ever crew to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. DiMaggio joined SpaceX in 2000 and was a designer on the initial Falcon 1 launch vehicle, the world's first privately-developed liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit in 2008. He received his bachelor…
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