SpaceX Ruling the future of the space industry - Part 1

There’s no denying that SpaceX has revolutionized the space sector, transforming the way we think about interplanetary spaceflight and the future of humankind. With SpaceX Starship scheduled for its first full-stack flight in late February, it’s time to review the phenomenal progress it’s made so far, and see where it’s headed next.

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REUSABLE ROCKET TECHNOLOGY

Perhaps one of the greatest concerns about space exploration raised in recent years is not only the vast quantities of money required to send humans into space but the natural resources, too. In 2021 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, SpaceX sent humans to space for the third time in less than a year, with astronauts sailing into orbit on a reused Falcon 9 rocket booster—the same booster that was used to send the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station the year prior. The crew also traveled aboard a used spacecraft: the same Dragon capsule, called Endeavour, that NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley used during their Demo-2 test flight