View Spacex Dragon 2 Inside PNG. Musk narrated a portion of his unveiling inside the dragon version 2. The manned version of spacex's dragon capsule will land using thrusters on earth, as shown in this artist illustration.

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Dragon's trunk not only carries unpressurized cargo but also supports the spacecraft during ascent. Spacex, the aerospace company founded by elon musk, let reporters into its hawthorne, california, headquarters to see and touch mockups of its crew dragon spaceship and spacesuit. With the launch of spacex's crew dragon space craft, nasa is heralding a new chapter in space exploration — where private companies will have a bigger role to play.

One half of the trunk is covered in solar panels which provide power to dragon during flight, and while on station.

The manned version of spacex's dragon capsule will land using thrusters on earth, as shown in this artist illustration. Even the two astronauts on the first spacex crew flight stayed behind at johnson space center in houston. Musk narrated a portion of his unveiling inside the dragon version 2. Inside, the dragon's cabin is sleek and spartan—its bare machined aluminum surfaces lending the purposeful air of a racecar's cockpit, down to the spacex is currently competing with sierra nevada and boeing to build a manned spacecraft that can carry astronauts to orbit, a service nasa has had.