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fromFast Company
1 month ago

Will the race to the moon run through Texas or Washington?

NASA reopened the Artemis moon lander contract, renewing competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin and triggering political interest from Texas and Washington.
fromFast Company
1 month ago

SpaceX completes the 11th test flight of its Starship, the biggest rocket ever made

SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, successfully making it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time.Starship - the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built - thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas. The booster peeled away and made a controlled entry into the Gulf of Mexico as planned, with the spacecraft skimming space before descending into the Indian Ocean. Nothing was recovered.
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