Elon Musk's SpaceX plans a record 144 launches next year for Starlink's Direct to Cell service

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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 13, 2023. The spacecraft is bound for Psyche, an object 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion kilometers) away that could offer clues about the interior of planets like Earth.
A SpaceX Falcon rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 13.

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Tom Mueller worked for Elon Musk at SpaceX for almost 20 years: 'I learned never to tell him no'

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Tom Mueller left SpaxeX to set up Impulse Space.

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Elon Musk passed out after drinking vodka in a meeting with Russians to buy rockets because he was hungover from partying in Paris, biography says

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Elon Musk, surrounded by Jared Kushner and other men in suits, drinks from a wine glass in the stands at the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar.
Elon Musk drinks from a wine glass at the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar.

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Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight took off this week. Here are the players taking civilians to space.

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Virgin Galactic's second commercial flight took off this week. Space tourists can pay $450,000 for a seat on one of the company's flights.

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Ukraine got its hands on North Korean rockets that troops say are wildly unpredictable and 'do crazy things,' and they're lobbing them at the Russians

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Ukrainian soldiers repair a Leopard 2 tank
Ukrainian soldiers repair a Leopard 2 tank in Zaporizhzhya region, Ukraine, on June 21, 2023.

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Elon Musk, eat your heart out: A new spaceflight startup wants to use a wild new technology to cut the time it takes to fly to Mars in half

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Elon Musk clasping his hands together with a serious expression on his face while wearing a black suit with a white button-down shirt.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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Why SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket looks unlike anything the company has ever built before

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SpaceX Super Heavy first-stage booster with the black side of its Starship second stage booster showing.
SpaceX's starship is designed to be the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built.

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