md5! Log in / Sign up Follow Gizmodo Following Gizmodo Related blogs Sploid Paleofuture Toyland Gizmodo en Español io9 Blogs you may like Deadspin Gawker Gizmodo Jalopnik Jezebel Kotaku Lifehacker Follow Following You can skip this ad in 5 seconds. SpaceX Is Sending a Red Dragon Spacecraft to Mars in 2018 [UPDATE] Ria Misra Today 12:15pm Filed to: spacex mars elon musk dragon RED DRAGON 146 20 Edit Invite manually Promote Dismiss Undismiss Hide Share to Kinja Go to permalink Image: SpaceX SpaceX has been teasing potential Mars plans for a while now, but the company just announced a launch date—and it’s soon. They plan to launch to the surface of Mars in 2018. Especially intriguing is that the announcement refers to the spacecraft as the “Red Dragon.” Does this mean that we’ll be seeing an update to the spacecraft so that it can handle the conditions of the red planet? We hope so. ...