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Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City, the Hyperloop: Elon Musk is renowned for having more futuristic ideas than he knows what to do with. But what Musk unveiled Thursday night at SpaceX may yet rank as his greatest leap forward: the world's first commercial, reusable manned spacecraft.


The Dragon V2, as it's known, looks a little like the LEM unit NASA used to use in Apollo missions. But this isn't your father's lunar lander, because of one feature designed to quicken the hearts of space geeks everywhere: it can land vertically back on Earth — using retro rockets to give it "the accuracy of a helicopter," Musk said. (And with parachutes as built-in back up, he hastily added). Read more...


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