SpaceX's Dragon! (Part 5)

For SpaceX, that spacecraft is Dragon. In 2015, Musk was gearing up to put humans in space, which brought him one step closer to his ultimate goal: Mars. It’s an amazing trajectory considering that, less than 15 years previously, Musk had been on the verge of bankruptcy and the first three Falcon 1 launches had failed. Aerospace hacks had sharpened their pens and written him off, yet he has been preparing for humanity’s best shot of getting us to Mars.
Curious to know about Dragon’s design, development and how it’s related to Mars colonization? KEEP WATCHING!!
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The Birth of Space Race:

As early as 1948, von Braun was calculating how to get to Mars and, when he wasn’t busy
working out how to get humans to the Red Planet, he championed the idea of spaceflight,
but the Americans weren’t interested. Undeterred, von Braun continued his work on a mission
to Mars, the outcome of which was presented on a Walt Disney show to an audience
of 42 million viewers. Like Musk , von Braun dreamed big. His Mars mission would send
70 astronauts on 10 spacecraft, with each vehicle weighing 3,720 tonnes! Thinking way
ahead of his time (this was the 1950s), von Braun also envisaged a fully reusable launch
vehicle that would deliver 25 tonnes of cargo and 14.5 tonnes of fuel to LEO. Von Braun’s
Project Mars never got off the ground. In 1957, Sputnik caught the attention of the US and
von Braun was tasked with developing a plan to land Americans on the Moon. After outlining
his proposal for landing men on the Moon, the Americans were all ears, and so the Space Race was born. As the creator of the Saturn V, von Braun was the first true visionary
of the American space program. It was von Braun’s creative genius that propelled the US
to the Moon: without him, there is a good chance Kennedy’s dream of reaching the Moon
before the end of 1969 would have withered and died.

Now we have another visionary in the shape of Elon Musk . Musk has succeeded because
he didn’t wait for the government to deliver the perfect program – he started with the tools
at hand and moved forward. Aggressively. One of Musk’s greatest qualities is his extraordinary
ability to believe in his own vision to such an extent that he doesn’t really think that what he's trying to do is particularly risky. What he’s trying to do is nothing less than open up an interplanetary era. It’s real Tony Stark stuff. And part of the reason he will succeed
is because he is willing to take risks. In the juggernaut industry that is the aerospace
world, there is an extraordinary aversion to risk. Even when better technology is available,
aerospace companies still prefer to use legacy components, some of which were designed
way back in the 1960s. Take Orbital Sciences as an example. This company, like SpaceX, has a contract to ferry cargo to the ISS, but their Antares launcher uses Russian rocket
engines (the AJ-26) from the 1960s. On 28 October 2014, Orbital Sciences suffered a
launch failure, and the finger of suspicion was pointed at that Russian rocket engine. So what did Orbital Sciences do? They contracted with the Russians to buy another rocket
engine (the RD-181) – 60 of them, at a cost of US$1 billion! SpaceX doesn’t go down
this road of outsourcing: no subcontracting or sub-subcontracting for this company,
which means their costs are streamlined and rocket launches have been brought down by
a factor of 10.

Designing Dragon:

The business of designing Dragon started at the tail end of 2004. At the time, SpaceX had
decided it would pursue development of the capsule with its own funds, but that changed in
2005 when NASA announced its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) development program and advertised that it was soliciting proposals for a commercial cargo vehicle which would replace the Shuttle.
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