NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster — despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone mission. According to a statement last week, NASA announced that it had awarded SpaceX a "modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings." As the agency explains, these contracts "provide a broad range of commercial launch services for NASA’s planetary, Earth-observing, exploration, and scientific satellites." The news shouldn't come as a surprise at this point, given SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's […]

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