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For SpaceX, the stakes of next week’s Starship rocket test flight are sky-high
SpaceX plans to launch a new version of its Starship rocket — a prototype of the system that NASA hopes will carry its astronauts to the moon — on Tuesday. This cluster currently includes 2 articles from 2 sources.
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For SpaceX, the stakes of next week’s Starship rocket test flight are sky-high
SpaceX plans to launch an updated version of its Starship megarocket — a new prototype of the system that NASA hopes will carry its astronauts to the moon in two years — on a critical test flight Tuesday. The stakes for Starship, and by extension for Elon Musk’s rocket company, have perhaps never been higher. SpaceX.
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