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SpaceX, Dragon Capsule & Falcon 9: Latest News
Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is a commercial company aiming to launch cargo, and eventually people, to low-Earth orbit. The firm is developing its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster under contracts from NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program and its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says his company's ultimate objective is Mars.
Re-usable rockets, Space Station deliveries and missions to Mars are part of the vision for commercial space pioneer and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The rocket mogul talks about his company's far reaching Space goals.
Musk appeared on the hit Comedy Central talk show this week.
SpaceX may one day launch rockets from its own Texas spaceport.
Fifty people will be selected to attend a two-day event leading up to the April 30 launch.
The independent advisory panel will help SpaceX design a safe human spaceflight system.
From runaway planets to a submarine on Jupiter, it's been a busy week in space. Vote for the week's best space story.
SpaceX's Dragon is set to make its first trip to the International Space Station next month.
SpaceX chief Elon Musk is laying the foundation for a revolution, and he'd like some support from luminaries like Neil Armstrong
Martian clay, a space guitar hero to a 'Swan' diving comet, vote for the week's best space story.
The billionaire entrepreneur discusses his ambitious future plans on CBS' "60 Minutes."
The test flight is a critical step for the private spaceflight industry.
The launches of two privately-built space capsules to the International Space Station will occur later this year.
The launch readiness test of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule went well, officials said.
A federal space official wants to double the number of commercial launches every year through 2019.
Scientists will meet to discuss the research potential of suborbital spaceflight.
The first test launch of SpaceX's Dragon space capsule to the International Space Station will be no earlier than March 20.
SpaceX has recently test fired the next generation of astronaut safeguards, the SuperDraco Engine, with the ability to catapult its Dragon capsule off the rocket and land safely on a landing pad.
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