In the historic launch of its Dragon space capsule Wednesday, Hawthorne-based rocket venture SpaceX didn’t carry astronauts or cargo into outer space.
But it did transport a wheel of LeBrouere cheese.
The company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., revealed Thursday that it lifted a “secret” payload into low Earth orbit aboard its cone-shaped Dragon spacecraft.
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