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SpaceX will attempt historic catch of returning Starship booster on Sunday (techcrunch.com)

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SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch window that opens at 5 AM PST (7 AM local time) from the company’s Starbase site in southeast Texas. This flight, which will be the fifth in the Starship development program, is coming a little sooner than expected: the Federal Aviation Administration had previously said that it did not anticipate issuing a modified launch license for this test before late November.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely if private entities want to go to space they should be able to. What grounds would you block them on? This is not a substitution or replacement of public space agencies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

then they shouldn't get any federal money or contracts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Why? They're providing a service with that contract. NASA isn't capable or doesn't want to do everything in house. If they deem it beneficial to outsource some projects to contractors then what's wrong with that?