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SpaceX: Dragon 2 will look like a real alien spaceship

2013-03-29 17:30:20| Extremetech

At a press conference following the successful touchdown of a SpaceX's Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station, CEO Elon Musk said that Dragon 2 will look like "a real alien spaceship" and be capable of propulsive touchdowns on land. Musk also said at the briefing that SpaceX will attempt a water landing of its Falcon 9 rocket later this year -- another key step towards reusable, cheaper spaceflight.

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SpaceX Utilizes Cooper Interconnect Non-Explosive Actuators on Second Dragon Flight

2013-03-21 22:18:32| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Cooper Interconnect, a unit of power management company Eaton, today announced that Space Exploration Technologies is utilizing its non-explosive actuators on the second flight of the Dragon Spacecraft.

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Evernote Hacked; CloudFlare Goes Offline; SpaceX Dragon Arrives at ISS

2013-03-05 00:33:19| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

Topping tech headlines, an attack on note-taking app Evernote forced the company to reset the passwords of its 50 million-plus users, Internet caching service CloudFlare and its member sites were briefly knocked offline, and the SpaceX Dragon landed safely at the ISS following brief technical difficulties.

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