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Elon Musk launches latest space mission

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04:22 2 Mar 2019


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A rocket capsule with a dummy on board has been blasted off for the International Space Station.

Dubbed 'Crew Dragon', it's been put together by SpaceX - and it marks a key milestone for Elon Musk’s company.

It's part of America's plan to start launching astronauts from home soil again.

Since the end of a US programme nearly a decade ago, the country's had to rely on Russia to put men and women into orbit.

NASA is aiming to resume human spaceflight later this year.

But Elon Musk has a more ambitious target, saying "we should have a permanently occupied human base on the moon, and send people to build a city on Mars".

 


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