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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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A reusable rocket could make spaceflight and Mars trips much cheaper, CEO Elon Musk said.
Several firms say they plan to be operational by 2015.
Was it the satellite falling toward Earth, asteroids that may not have wiped out the dinosaurs or something else?
NASA needs private spaceships to launch Americans into orbit on space station trips.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket experienced an engine glitch during its launch of the Dragon capsule, company officials said.
A look at some of the top milestones from the first 50 years of human spaceflight, from Gagarin's historic flight to the birth of space tourism.
The United States needs more than one way to get to space.
There may not be anyone aboard the station to receive SpaceX's Dragon capsule in early December.
SpaceX is dead serious about going to Mars to help ensure humanity's future.
SPACEX founder answers audience questions about Mars, heavy lift launch, crew capsules, the Falcon 9, the Dragon capsule and more during his American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics keynote address on August 1st 2011.
The life-hunting mission could launch toward Mars in a Dragon capsule in 2018.
This week we saw rare volcanoes discovered on the moon and questioned whether we are truly alone in the universe.
Astronauts who want to fly to space soon can look to private industry for opportunities.
Private spaceships may make three visits to the station in the next seven months or so.
NASA and SpaceX have unofficially agreed to combine the two remaining test flights of SpaceX's Dragon capsule.
Multiple companies are vying for the right to fly astronauts to low-Earth orbit.
Over a 2 hour period the Sun released a massive strand of plasma that split and twisted into what resembles a dragon before falling back to the surface. Captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 12, 2011.
The Falcon Heavy rocket will be delivered to its new launch site next year.
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