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  • SpaceX will use “Dragon 2” for the moon travel

    SpaceX will use “Dragon 2” for the moon travel

    SpaceX recently announced plans to send two paying passengers into space in 2018. Details about the trip are currently unknown, but SpaceX confirmed to Business Insider the space tourists would be riding in the Dragon 2 capsule. Here’s what it’s like.

  • SpaceX uses a different rocket fuel from anyone else

    SpaceX uses a different rocket fuel from anyone else

    For nearly a year, SpaceX has been trying out something new: super-cooling the liquid oxygen (LOX) which is a key ingredient in rocket fuel. It’s called deep-cryo LOX, and the idea has been around since NASA began designing rockets in the first half of the 20th century. But no one has had the guts to…