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, SpaceX CEO Musk highlighted the fact that Starship will be reusable over and over again at a fraction of the cost of previous rockets. It's a development that threatens to leave NASA and other competitors in its wake as it launches to the proverbial stratosphere. While it has long been known that Starship would be reusable, the advanced capabilities reportedly have other space organizations, including NASA, worried that their own in-development rocket projects will be rendered obsolete.
Starship is designed to be the first reusable spacecraft that will be able to take crew and cargo to the Moon and Mars before returning to Earth. By contrast, NASA's Space Launch System for its Artemis Moon landing missions has gone billions of dollars over original budget estimations and is years behind schedule.
That disparity between the capabilities of SpaceX's machine and the historic space innovator, NASA, could have wide-ranging implications for the space industry as a whole.
Of course, Musk has been known to make grand statements that haven't come true, and the production of his otherhas faced long delays since it was first unveiled in 2019. Still, given the capabilities Starship has already shown off in test flights, and the recent promises made by Elon Musk and SpaceX, NASA and private contractors — including Northrup Grumman and Boeing — may find the status quo altered to the point they have to go back to the drawing board.
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