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SpaceX will reap the benefits of new Dragon research opportunity

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SpaceX will become the co-owner of valuable data, biological samples, and possibly even patents and intellectual property related to human spaceflight, according to the terms and conditions of a new program inviting research on crewed Dragon missions. The company started quietly inviting proposals “for exceptional science and research ideas that will enable life in space and on other planets,” to be executed on orbit using its Dragon spacecraft capsule. Given SpaceX’s ambitions, it only makes sense that the company wants to platform even more research into solutions that could reduce these risks – and better set up their own mission to Mars for success.

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