Dragon is a conventional blunt-cone ballistic capsule with a hinged nose-cone cap which opens to reveal a standard International Space Station (ISS) Common Berthing Mechanism. It allows the Dragon to be captured by the Space Station Remote Manipulator System and berthed to the non-Russian segments of the ISS. This approach avoids the weight, cost and complexity of an on-board docking system such as the Androgynous Peripheral Attach System (APAS-89) or the Low Impact Docking System (LIDS).[citation needed]
The Dragon capsule will be launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket.[6] SpaceX has built a full-sized prototype of the capsule and "thoroughly tested" its life support system
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