18+ Spacex Rocket Dragon Launch Pics. The launch began an ambitious mission to show that the company is ready to deliver cargo to the international space station. Dragon is equipped with draco thrusters that allow dragon to maneuver while on orbit, and 8 superdracos coupled together as a launch escape system.

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Nasa and spacex will keep their livestream rolling at least until spacex's crew dragon capsule, carrying astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley, dock with the international space station tomorrow. Flying aboard the spacex crew dragon capsule, the astronauts were only meant to carry cargo and a plush dinosaur toy. The launch began an ambitious mission to show that the company is ready to deliver cargo to the international space station.

15), as a shiny white falcon 9 rocket took to the skies above the rocket lifted off from nasa's historic pad 39 here at 7:27 p.m.

15), as a shiny white falcon 9 rocket took to the skies above the rocket lifted off from nasa's historic pad 39 here at 7:27 p.m. The spacex dragon, also known as dragon 1 or cargo dragon, was a class of reusable cargo spacecraft developed by spacex, an american private space transportation company. The falcon 9 rocket's second stage separates from the spacex crew dragon capsule credit: The historic mission was the first crewed spaceflight to take off from us soil in nearly a decade.