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Could space tourism enable lunar and orbital colonization to reach critical mass? I view colonization critical mass to be over 300k people. Around 1745, the American colonies passed a population of 1 million. This population had doubled twice from 250,000 people in 1700 and nearly tripled by 1780 to 2.7…

A Falcon 9 rocket boosts a batch of Starlink satellites. SpaceX The Falcon 9 first stage that punched NASA astronauts beyond the unceasing clutches of Earth's gravity well for the first time in SpaceX history has a new assignment. The same booster that sent Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to…

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Max Q is a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Mondays in your inbox. Sometimes even the biggest successes look like failures on video. That’s the theme of this week, because the biggest news by far was SpaceX’s test launch of…

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SpaceX Launches Starships Monthly While SLS Started in 2011 And Has Not Launched Brian Wang | March 5, 2021 | SpaceX has had monthly test launches every month for the past three months. The Space Launch System (SLS) program started in 2011. They have never launched. The first launch has…

Media accreditation is now open for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station.Read More

by Park Si-soo — March 4, 2021 Kencoa Aerospace Corporation’s headquarters in Sacheon, South Korea. Credit: Kencoa Aerospace Corporation SEOUL, South Korea — Kencoa Aerospace Corp., a South Korean aircraft assembler and parts supplier that has NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin as clients, is planning to expand its U.S. parts…

What just happened? Starship SN10, SpaceX's third prototype subjected to a high-altitude test flight following two failed attempts with the SN8 and SN9, became its first rocket to make it back to the ground in one piece. However, a fire broke out upon touchdown, and around eight minutes later, the…

MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer March 4, 2021Updated: March 4, 2021 11:30 a.m. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s futuristic Starship looked like it aced a touchdown Wednesday, but then exploded on the landing pad with so much force that it was hurled into the air. The failure occurred just minutes after…