Having teased the public by showing off the SuperDraco engine, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk takes the wraps off the Dragon V2 manned spacecraft that it’s designed to propel. In a brief media event at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California headquarters, Musk introduced the larger, more powerful version of the reusable Dragon capsule, which will one day carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and return to Earth to land under its own power... Continue Reading Elon Musk unveils Dragon V2 manned spacecraft
Section: Space
Tags: Astronauts, Dragon, Elon Musk, International Space Station, Spacecraft, SpaceX
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