There are already signs that support for SpaceX is faltering across the halls of power in the Capitol, especially in light of the outfit’s failure so far to loft the Starship on its first flight test to reach the cratered crust of the Moon. Yet during a recent hearing on the serially delayed Artemis III flight convened by Ted Cruz, one of the outstanding champions of NASA and of overall American space power in the U.S. Senate, Bridenstine testified that the aerospace agency is now in danger of losing the new space race to the Moon. SpaceX could rush to develop a miniaturized clone of the Starship , in time to allow NASA to win the new Moon race, Zubrin says, and then be the first ever to loft contingents of Allied astronauts to the ghosts of Martian waterways that might one day be brought back to life.
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Published at: 2025-09-29 21:42:41
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