Space X Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:49:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Space X Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 World’s First Private Spacecraft Makes Successful Trip To International Space Station https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/06/05/worlds-first-private-spacecraft-makes-successful-trip-to-international-space-station/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/06/05/worlds-first-private-spacecraft-makes-successful-trip-to-international-space-station/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:47:25 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=6829 Governments from just a handful of countries have flown into space.

But never has a private company successfully sent a spacecraft into space.

Not only is it extremely expensive, but it’s incredibly risky. There are a million things that can go wrong.

Last month an American company called Space Exploration Technologies – better known as SpaceX – made history by sending its unmanned Dragon spacecraft into space.

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