SpaceX company introduced its first spacecraft capable of taking astronauts into space. The announcement was made by Elon Musk at the company headquarters in Hawthorne, Los Angeles (USA).
Capsule Dragon V2 is a modified version of a spaceship that is now used to deliver cargo to the station version International Space (ISS). It is also an improved version of the Russian Soyuz capsule. The differential Dragon V2 is that it is able to send up to seven astronauts into space in just a flight and still come back to Earth after. That’s more than double the capacity of the Soyuz currently used by NASA (the U.S. space agency). Thanks for propulsion and other technologies, the Dragon V2 is able to land without relying on hard landings or parachute . According to Musk, the ship is able to land almost anywhere like a helicopter.Another advance is the Dragon V2 is reusable. This will
Below is an animation that shows the Dragon V2:.