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...The company hopes to establish a mining base and meet the White House goal of establishing the moon as the first step in more distant space exploration....
...Returning to the moon would be “a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars” and “refocus America’s space program on human exploration and discovery,” Mr Trump said....
...When SpaceX successfully resumed flight operations with its Falcon 9 rocket last December, it seemed the space technology company founded by Elon Musk might have decisively consigned major failure to the...
...ULA is developing a new rocket system called Vulcan to replace the Atlas V and Delta rockets and end the company’s reliance for Atlas engines on the RD-180 , built in Russia....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...the US’s most sensitive satellite launches has warned of the risks surrounding senators’ “aggressive schedule” to develop a new, US-built rocket engine, amid concerns the US may lose reliable access to space...
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