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SpaceX launches its original Dragon capsule for the last time – Engadget

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SpaceX launches its original Dragon capsule for the last time – Engadget

Falcon 9 booster has landed on Landing Zone 1 – our 50th landing of a rocket booster! pic.twitter.com/RGwOyJs1Sl— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 7, 2020The Dragon spacecraft used for this launch reached the ISS twice in the past, first for a resupply mission in February 2017 and then again in December 2018. Also, the Falcon 9 booster SpaceX used first reached outer space back in December 2019.The mission’s success shows just how far spaceflight has advanced over the past ten years and ever since SpaceX won a $1.6 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract from NASA in 2008. Reusable boosters and spacecraft are pretty common and even expected now — in fact, Dragon’s second version will have the capability to fly to the space station for up to five times, whereas version one can only last for three.

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