Innovation

SpaceX Turns Back the Clock to Return Americans to Orbit

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Elon Musk’s engineers have built a retro-futuristic spacecraft for America’s first manned mission in nearly a decade. Will their blast from the past work?

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via Space X

On Wednesday, look to the stars. You just might catch a glimpse of America’s first manned spacecraft in nine years, arcing through the atmosphere toward the International Space Station.

Nearly a decade after NASA retired its three surviving Space

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