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SpaceX Unveils Upgraded Dragon Space Capsule

Pat Host

Friday, May 30th, 2014

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SpaceX Unveils Upgraded Dragon Space Capsule

SpaceX's Dragon V2 space capsule, unveiled May 29. Photo: SpaceX.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Thursday unveiled its upgraded Dragon space capsule that company CEO and chief designer Elon Musk said will be capable of landing via propulsion anywhere on earth with the accuracy of a helicopter. SpaceX formally unveiled Dragon V2 during a presentation at the company’s Hawthorne, Calif., headquarters. Dragon V2 will eventually be used as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, designed to taxi astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017. United States astronauts currently…

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