Watch SpaceX test its amazing SuperDraco rockets from a few feet away
The Space Shuttle was cool in action, but on paper it sounded like a particularly capacious way to get to work in the mornings. Spaceships should really have cooler names. Elon Musk’s SpaceX understands this — the private company’s newest Dragon craft is equipped with four SuperDraco pods, each with two engines that belch vast plumes of fire that could help the manned module separate in the case of emergency. Were it up to NASA, I bet they’d have called SpaceX’s upcoming craft “the Big Flying Bus,” or “Sky Subway.”
Source:: The Verge
