RocketSTEM Issue #8 - July 2014 | Page 96

SpaceX founder Elon Musk gives a peek inside the next generation Dragon space capsule during a media event to reveal the new design. The Dragon V2 will be the Revealing a new Dragon By Mary Kanian In my lifetime, I have witnessed what I thought may be the entire in the USA; from the challenge of Russia’s Sputnik in 1957, when I was 11 years old, to the ROAR of the last Space Shuttle launch in 2011. Oh, brother. Was I wrong. Before the dust had settled after the last Space Shuttle launch, private companies eager to take up where the government seeme