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SpaceX rocket EXPLODES as it fails pressure test in a blow to Elon Musk’s plans for mission to Mars 

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SpaceX rocket EXPLODES as it fails pressure test in a blow to Elon Musk’s plans for manned mission to Mars The prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket failed to take off during testing on Friday night in Boca Chica, Texas Footage shows the spaceship, known as SN1, exploding, sending the stainless steel cylinder flying off … Read more

US government is developing a nuclear rocket to send satellites between Earth and the Moon

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The US government is developing a nuclear rocket to send satellites into the vast space between the Earth and the Moon, in a renewed space race with China.  The rocket will have a nuclear thermal propulsion engine and is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the government. The engine uses a … Read more