SpaceX, NASA Will Collaborate On ‘Red Dragon’ Mars Landing

Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX and NASA wrapped up 16 months of behind-the-scenes negotiations Tuesday with an unfunded Space Act agreement to cooperate on sending an unmanned Dragon crew capsule to the surface of Mars as early as 2018. “Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018,” the Hawthorne, California-based...

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