Red Dragon

SpaceX estimated to spend $300 million on Red Dragon mission

Posted in Science on 28th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller

SpaceX's "Red Dragon" concept envisions using a Dragon spacecraft with only minor modification to land on the surface of Mars as a precursor to later human missions.

SpaceX to send 3 unmanned missions to Mars leading to a manned mission

Posted in Science on 4th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

SpaceX to send an unmanned mission to Mars using the Dragon V2 starting in 2018 and launch a rocket to Mars every 26 months.

How SpaceX plans to land on Mars in 2018 using the most powerful rocket in the world

Posted in Hardware on 1st May, 2016
by Alex Muller

Red Dragon will go to Mars to retrieve samples collected by NASAs Mars rover and then return them to Earth.