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SpaceX And Bigelow Aerospace To Offer Missions To Private Space Station

May 14, 2012
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Bigelow Aerospace (BA) have agreed to conduct a joint marketing effort focused on international customers. The two companies will offer rides on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, using the Falcon launch vehicle to carry passengers to Bigelow habitats orbiting the Earth. According to Bigelow Aerospace’s President and Founder, Robert T. Bigelow, “We’re very excited to be working with our colleagues at SpaceX to present the unique services that our two companies can offer to international clientele. “We’re eager to join them overseas to discuss the substantial benefits that BA 330 leasing can offer in combination with...

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SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule To Dock With The ISS In December 2011

July 27, 2011
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An artist concept drawing of the Dragon spacecraft approaching the ISS. Dragon could return the NASA experiment MISSE, a brief-case sized experiment that tests all sorts of materials like polymers and other composites. credit: SpaceX

NASA and SpaceX have agreed to allow the Dragon capsule to dock with the International Space Station this fall, according to SpaceX’s Twitter feed. The Dragon capsule is currently scheduled to launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on November 30, and dock with the ISS 9 days later. Originally, the Dragon was scheduled to just rendezvous with the space station on this second flight for Dragon and then dock on a subsequent flight. But after the successful test flight of the first Dragon capsule in Dec. 2010, SpaceX asked NASA to combine the two missions.   “We technically have...

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SpaceX Falcon Rocket Could Return Samples From Mars

April 6, 2011
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The holy grail in planetary science is to return samples of soil and rock from Mars. This is the best chance, with today’s technologies, to discover if life exists elsewhere in the solar system. Mission costs, however, have been prohibitive. hat might be about to change. A heavy-lift rocket being built by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will cut the cost of launching payloads into space from the current rate of about $10,000 per pound to about $1,000 per pound, said company founder Elon Musk during Tuesday’s announcement. “I think we can realistically start to contemplate missions like a Mars...

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