Last month Elon Musk wowed reporters on the floor of SpaceX's Hawthorne, California-based factory, pulling back the curtain on the spaceship that his commercial spaceflight company hopes will carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station as soon as 2016.
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This NASA handout photo shows security as they monitor the Soyuz TMA-11M rocket as it is rolled out on the launchpad by train on November 5, 2013, Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
