After such success with Falcon 1, another
spacecraft, ‘The DRAGON’ made history in so
many ways. It became the first privately
owned company spacecraft to return to earth,
from a low orbit. This happened in 2010.
DRAGON spacecraft became the first
privately owned company spacecraft to visit
the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. The
list goes on and on.
Then came the technology of reusable rocket.
SPACE X became the first of a kind to launch
rockets into the geosynchronous orbit and
return them back to earth for them to be
reused again for the next flight!
ELON quotes "If one can figure out how to
effectively reuse rockets just like aeroplanes,
the cost of access to space will be reduced by
as much as a factor of a hundred. A fully
reusable vehicle has never been made
before. That really is the fundamental
breakthrough needed to revolutionize access
to space.”
In March 2017 this was made possible with
the Falcon-9 spacecraft. This idea and dream
were finally established as a
reality. From 2002, only in a
mere 16 years, SPACE X
has become a
leading aerospace
company.
The recent success of Space X is the launch
and retrieval of the Falcon heavy spacecraft.
This spacecraft was designed to carry the
Tesla Roadster into space and leave it
travelling through space. The idea behind it
was to launch a vehicle in an elliptical orbit to
the sun passing close to mars. In the beauty of
all this, the Tesla Roadster will keep playing
the song ''Starman" by David Bowie on infinite
loop. We cannot ignore the sense of humour
that Elon Musk has shown through this act.
This launch was successfully carried out and it
made the Falcon heavy the biggest and most
powerful of all the rockets ever being
launched. It also defeated the rocket Saturn V
that NASA had launched way back in 1973.
With its future plans including colonisation of
mars, and making other planets accessible for
human life to survive, to take one step towards
immortality of the human race, SPACE X will
surely have more groundbreaking and
wonderful technology in the coming decade or
so. A day would come where not just
astronauts but common people like you and I
could go on a space exploration flight and see
the wonders of the universe which were earlier
impossible to see.
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