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In 2020, SpaceX made history again by ferrying astronauts to the ISS aboard Crew Dragon, marking the first time in over a decade that the US had launched humans from its soil. This successful crewed mission paved the way for regular NASA crew rotations, revitalizing American human spaceflight.
The Quest for Interplanetary Travel: Starship and Deep Space Ambitions
While Falcon rockets and Dragon modules revolutionized low Earth orbit missions, Musk’s ultimate dream has always been interplanetary colonization. To that end, SpaceX has developed the Starship—an enormous spacecraft designed to carry humans and cargo to Mars and beyond.