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Starship's final test flight clears the way for bigger rockets

On Oct 13, SpaceX lifted off the 11th Starship test from Starbase in South Texas. The flight marked the last launch of the current Version 2 vehicle and ended in a clean sub‑orbital flight. Dan Huot cheered on the web…

Version 2 stands 403 feet tall, can loft 165 tons to orbit, and is built for rapid reuse. Both the Super Heavy booster and the upper stage, called Ship, are meant to land back on the pad and be caught by the launch to…

NASA launched Crew‑10 on March 14 at 7:04 p.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center. A Falcon 9 carried four astronauts—Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, Kirill Peskov, and Takuya Onishi—toward the ISS. The Dragon capsule is slat…

The mission returns Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams, who have spent nine months aboard the station after Boeing’s Starliner failed. The Starliner suffered five helium leaks and five reaction‑control‑system thruster f…

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