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Next stop: Mars? In December, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation of Hawthorne, Calif., better known as SpaceX, landed a rocket on Earth, flying a booster stage of one of its Falcon 9 rockets back to Cape Canaveral. This month, the company repeated the feat even more impressively, setting the booster down on a floating platform in the Atlantic. Now SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, has its sights set farther away: It aims to land one of its capsules on the surface of Mars in May 2018, the company announced in a Twitter message on Wednesday. Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come pic.twitter.com/u4nbVUNCpA — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2016 Mr. Musk has said that SpaceX’s long-term goal is to colonize Mars, and he has talked of an ambitious schedule to get people there in the mid-2020s. But before that happens, Mr. Musk, not to mention any would-be colonists, have to … [Read more...] about SpaceX Says It Plans to Send a Probe to Mars