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For the first time, SpaceX not only launched its mammoth Starship, but also returned the booster to the launch site and caught it with a pair of oversized

SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch window that opens at 5 AM PST (7 AM local time) from the company’s Starbase site in southeast Texas. This flight, which will be the fifth in the Starship development program, is coming a little sooner than expected: the Federal Aviation Administration had previously said that it did not anticipate issuing a modified launch license for this test before late November.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      17 days ago

      You’re joking right? No they have not… I love NASA, but acting like what spacex has done is only because of NASA is bullshit.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        22·
        16 days ago

        because everything spacex has done is because of nasa. all spacex does is toss unlimited money at exploding rockets and pollute the environment and ecosystem

        • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          SpaceX insisted on fixed price contracts. Unlike the other companies doing cost-plus contracts (aka unlimited money contracts), SpaceX sets a price on government services and then delivers for that price.