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Future of lunar missions built in Colorado are uncertain, for now
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Future of lunar missions built in Colorado are uncertain, for now

By Bernadette Berdychowski | Denver Gazette In a mission control center in Arvada, Lunar Outpost CEO Justin Cyrus was in “game mode” gearing up for Thursday’s big lunar landing day. “I don’t really celebrate until the job’s done,” he said during a ceremony Wednesday to debut the new mission control facility. The Golden-based company founded in 2017 built a rover onboard Intuitive Machine’s Athena lander to explore the moon’s south pole and execute a symbolic first commercial sale of lunar regolith — the material making up the moon’s surface. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Why yesterday’s SpaceX launch was such a huge deal for space travel
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Why yesterday’s SpaceX launch was such a huge deal for space travel

By  Ellie Zolfagharifard, Morgan McFall-Johnsen | Newsbreak SpaceX achieved an incredible engineering feat on Sunday. The company launched the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket . After liftoff, the Super Heavy booster returned to the launchpad in a world-first maneuver. SpaceX's Starship rocket achieved a world first on Sunday during its fifth test flight, showing for the first time that the launch system may really have what it takes to change spaceflight. The launch system includes a Starship rocket ship stacked atop a 233-foot-tall Super Heavy booster and stands taller than the Statue of Liberty . READ THE FULL STORY AT NEWSBREAK
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Billionaire on SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission conducts first private spacewalk
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Billionaire on SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission conducts first private spacewalk

 By Pilar Arias  | Fox Business Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 integrated payment processing solutions, participated in the first ever private spacewalk by a group of astronauts who left a SpaceX capsule after a delay of a few hours, testing a new line of spacesuits in the company's riskiest mission yet. Along with the billionaire entrepreneur is a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees. The four have been orbiting Earth aboard Crew Dragon since Tuesday's pre-dawn launch from Florida of the Polaris Dawn mission. Isaacman "egressed Dragon" and conducted his first "suit mobility tests that will test overall hand body control, vertical movement with Skywalker, and foot restraint," according to a SpaceX post on X at 6:53 a.m. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX BUS...
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