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Saturday, May 31, 2014

SpaceX unveils sleek spaceship to fly U.S. astronauts

SpaceX CEO Musk poses by the Dragon V2 spacecraft after it was unveiled in Hawthorne By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, on Thursday unveiled an upgraded passenger version of the Dragon cargo ship NASA buys for resupply runs to the International Space Station. Rather than parachuting down into the ocean, the new capsule is outfitted with beefed up motors and landing legs to make precision touchdowns on land, said SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk, a billionaire technology entrepreneur who also runs the Tesla Motors Inc electric car company. "You'll be able to land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter ... That is how a 21st century spaceship should land," Musk said before a jam-packed audience at SpaceX's Hawthorne, Calif., headquarters. More than 32,500 people also watched the Dragon unveiling on a live SpaceX webcast.




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