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Installing SuperDraco engines, which will power Crew Dragon’s launch escape system, for the first mission with @NASA astronauts on board
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Test of Crew Dragon’s upgraded launch escape system ahead of static fire and in-flight abort tests – altogether we are conducting hundreds of tests to verify the system's advanced capabilities to carry astronauts to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency
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Ultimately, Starship will carry as many as 100 people on long-duration, interplanetary flights
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Starship will provide affordable delivery of significant quantities of cargo and people, essential for building Moon bases and Mars cities
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Starship will use in-space propellant transfer to enable the delivery of over 100t of useful mass to the surface of the Moon or Mars
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Starship will be the most powerful rocket in history, capable of carrying humans to the Moon, Mars, and beyond
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Raptor is a full-flow, staged combustion rocket engine powered by cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen
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Starship serves as a large, long-duration spacecraft capable of carrying passengers or cargo to Earth orbit, planetary destinations, and between destinations on Earth
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11 years ago today, we launched our first successful mission. To date, we’ve completed 78 launches and have developed the world’s only operational reusable orbital class rockets and spacecraft—capable of launching to space, returning to Earth, and flying again
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Starship update live now twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Watching some weather in the area; moving Starship update to no earlier than 8:00 p.m. CDT
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Starship at our launch facility in Cameron County, Texas. Watch as @elonmusk gives an update on the vehicle today at ~7:00 p.m. CDT → spacex.com/webcast
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Fired together at full throttle, Crew Dragon's eight SuperDracos can move the spacecraft 0.5 miles—the length of over 7 American football fields lined up end to end—in 7.5 seconds, reaching a peak velocity of 436 mph
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Ahead of our in-flight abort test for @Commercial_Crew—which will demonstrate Crew Dragon's ability to safely carry astronauts away from the rocket in the unlikely event of an emergency—our team has completed over 700 tests of the spacecraft's SuperDraco engines
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Team in McGregor, Texas completed a static fire test today of the Falcon 9 booster that will launch Crew Dragon with @NASA astronauts @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug to the @Space_Station
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Starhopper flight test drone footage
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First Dragon to complete three missions to and from the @Space_Station
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Starhopper cam now live youtube.com/watch?v=bYb3bf…
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Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing this spacecraft’s third mission to and from the @Space_Station!
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Dragon's main parachutes have been deployed
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Dragon's drogue chutes deployed nominally
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Dragon's de-orbit burn is complete and its trunk has been jettisoned; Pacific Ocean splashdown in ~30 minutes
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Dragon will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in ~5 hours; Pacific Ocean splashdown around 1:20 p.m. PDT
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The three departure burns to move Dragon away from the @Space_Station are complete
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Dragon has been released from the @Space_Station! Three departure burns are now underway → nasa.gov/nasatv
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