View Spacex Dragon Capsule Design Background. The uncrewed flight to the space station is a key step in nasa's plans to send astronauts into orbit on commercial spacecraft. The crew dragon, a spaceship designed by spacex for manned flights, successfully landed back on earth for the first time, after six days in space.

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Over the course of several hours, the naturally, the dragon design won. The spacex falcon 9 rocket, topped with the crew dragon capsule carrying four astronauts on the first operational nasa commercial crew mission, launches at the kennedy space center. Spacex showed off its crew dragon capsule and introduced the first four nasa astronauts who will crew dragon is spacex's bid for nasa's competitive commercial crew program — the agency's we're kind of looking to see what works best, what doesn't work as far as crew module design.

Spacex founder and chief executive elon musk said the launch was super stressful to watch, but he's hopeful the capsule will be ready to carry people later this year.

Nasa tv and spacex broadcasted live video of the return on friday morning. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space the crew dragon spacecraft will use its superdraco engines during a launch abort scenario to propel both the capsule and its trunk away from the launch vehicle. Spacex showed off its crew dragon capsule and introduced the first four nasa astronauts who will crew dragon is spacex's bid for nasa's competitive commercial crew program — the agency's we're kind of looking to see what works best, what doesn't work as far as crew module design. The uncrewed flight to the space station is a key step in nasa's plans to send astronauts into orbit on commercial spacecraft.