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Emboldened by a new $75 million contract from NASA, private aerospace company SpaceX released this video Thursday, illustrating how it plans to revolutionize space travel with its reusable Dragon spacecraft and heavy-lift Falcon rockets.
The video features real footage from SpaceX's successes alongside animations of future missions. According to the video, that Dragon spacecraft could have been carrying human inhabitants in its first test flight last December.
We especially like the way the video demonstrates how those built-in escape rockets on the sides of the Dragon spacecraft will also be used as a retrorockets, enabling the capsule to land "on any surface in the universe."