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Nov 22 2025
07:41 am
By: bizgrrl
Newest SpaceX Starship booster is significantly damaged during testing early Friday
This is after the May, 2025, SpaceX Starship launch failure. The 9th so far. The spacecraft tumbled out of control and broke apart.
Maybe Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin efforts will eventually replace SpaceX. "Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space company successfully launched and landed its New Glenn rocket Thursday afternoon, marking a major technical breakthrough"...
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