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Is SpaceX paving the way for a ‘taxi service’ to space? – CGTN

Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has succeeded in sending NASA astronauts up to space and back in a landmark mission. But why is it so important?

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After 64 days in space, two NASA astronauts successfully made it back down to Earth on board a privately built vehicle, in what is being called a landmark mission.
U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley became the first crew to fly billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX-built Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on 31 May, and back, marking a giant leap towards private travel to space.
Behnken and Hurley splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on 2 August, to the sound of laughter a…

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