SpaceX Dragon 2

IN NEWS:

• Two NASA astronauts completed a SpaceX Demo-2 test flight mission to the International Space Station.
• The test flight was completed in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon space craft, the passenger variant of Dragon 2 spacecrafts developed by Space X.

About Space X Dragon 2:

• The SpaceX Dragon 2 is a class of reusable spacecraft developed and manufactured by American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX.
• It has two variants:
  • Crew Dragon, a space capsule capable of ferrying up to seven astronauts.
  • Cargo Dragon, an updated replacement for the original Dragon spacecraft.
• It is a  successor to Dragon, a reusable cargo spacecraft.
• Demo-2 was the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since the final Space Shuttle mission, in 2011, and also the first ever operated by a commercial provider.

About SpaceX:

• SpaceX is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
• It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars.

PRELIMS QUESTION

”Crew Dragon” is a reusable space craft developed by:    
(a)NASA
(b)Space X
(c)Japanese space agency
(d)European Space agency

Answer to prelims question