SpaceX announces it will send a spacecraft to Mars by 2018

On Wednesday, Elon Musk’s private company SpaceX announced on Twitter that it plans to send a spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018. The mission - which SpaceX is calling 'Red Dragon' - will involve sending a Dragon 2 spacecraft to Mars to retrieve samples collected by NASA’s Mars rover and then return them to Earth.
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