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SpaceX, with its rapidly expanding squadron of Starship rockets and super-capsules, looks poised to dominate the creation of humanity’s first base camp on the Moon.

As it ramps up producing Starship upper stages that can double as Moon-orbiting space stations or as spectacular lunar resorts, SpaceX is positioned to speed past NASA’s plans for Spartan astronaut habitats on the orb’s South Pole.

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Along with the first private-sector spacewalk, the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew also will set a new Earth-orbit altitude record.

NASA will call on SpaceX to bring home two astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station since early June after their Boeing spacecraft ran into several problems midflight, the agency said.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origins is tripping over its own feet as it races to meet an October deadline. One rocket portion exploded during testing.

SpaceX finished construction of its second launch tower down at Starbase, Texas for its Starship rocket. This comes hopefully a few weeks out from the next launch of the company’s next generation rocket.

Over the last few months SpaceX has cleared land and constructed a new launch tower at its research, development, and launch facilities down at Starbase, Texas. This now gives the company three towers total for Starship, two at Starbase and one more over in Florida at LC-39A.

There is still plenty of work to be done at the pad, it still needs the launch table, chopsticks, plumbing for propellent, etc. However, the biggest and most prominent feature is now complete.

No airlock? No problem.

I expect that space-based atom interferometry will lead to exciting new discoveries and fantastic quantum technologies impacting everyday life, and will transport us into a quantum future.

The integration of graphene-metal metastructures with laser micropropulsion systems promises significant advancements in space exploration and energy systems.

“Once it leaves our facility, it hits the launch pad and launches into space,” he said.

Final testing and launch preparations for Dream Chaser’s maiden flight remain ongoing at KSC. The 30-foot-long cargo space plane — named Tenacity — arrived at the Cape in mid-May from NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.