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Tesla CEO Elon Musk never does anything in halves. Just after 9am on May 6, 2015, in Cape Canaveral, his company SpaceX tested its Crew Dragon spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to space by 2017. The Pad Abort Test successfully demonstrated how a “revolutionary launch abort system” separates the crew capsule from its base in an emergency, and gently lands the capsule and its crew with a system of parachutes.
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