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May 30, 2014
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The Dragon V2 got its grand reveal last night by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who showed off his company’s new spacecraft in a live webcast. Rather than parachuting down into the ocean, the new capsule is outfitted with beefed up motors and landing legs to make precision touchdowns on land. Lifting the vehicle’s hatch, Musk settled into a reclined gold-and-black pilot’s seat and pulled down a sleek, rounded glass control panel. The cabin, designed to fly a crew of seven, looked more like a Star Trek movie set than the flight deck of NASA’s now-retired space shuttle. More than 32,500 people also watched the Dragon unveiling on a live SpaceX webcast. Report by Andrea Lilly.