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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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The space agency has signed a contract with Bigelow Aerospace for an inflatable habitat.
See photos of Dragon, Grasshopper and other SpaceX rockets taken since the company was founded in 2002.
Private spacecraft from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and others are poised for major test in 2013.
SpaceX's Grasshopper reusable rocket prototype flew 12-stories up during its third test flight.
The SpaceX Grasshopper flew more than 130 feet (40 meters) into the air before landing successfully after 29 seconds of flight.
Falcon 9 lifts SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the ISS.
Elon Musk founded SpaceX with ambitions to explore Mars.
SpaceX, Boeing and Sierra Nevada each get about $10 million to start certifying their spaceships.
Just in time for the holidays, SpaceX mission patches are on sale for the first time.
A private space company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has switched rocket providers.
Elon Musk wants to help put 80,000 people on the Red Planet.
The private spaceflight company SpaceX aims to make a fully reusable spacecraft.
SpaceX’s reusable rocket prototype, called Grasshopper, has taken its highest hop yet, a 17.7-foot flight test to demonstrate its closed loop thruster vectors and throttle controls
The space agency will likely continue working to get astronauts to an asteroid by 2025.
Budget issues will probably be a much bigger driver for the space agency, experts say.
The private Dragon spacecraft was recovered and brought back to port after its first official cargo delivery mission.
The private cargo capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean after a resupply mission to the International Space Station on October 28th, 2012.
The cargo capsule is on its way back to Earth as it departed the International Space Station on October 28th, 2012.
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