Dozens of Starlink internet constellation launches. SpaceX’s fail-fast-and-fix-fast philosophy embodied in wildly popular Starship test flights.
Rovers touching down on foreign worlds, renewed plans to put humans on the moon, and an accelerating launch cadence. All things space – and especially all things SpaceX – have increasingly dominated headlines in recent years, reports News 6 partner Florida Today.
After all, the company did return the U.S. to human spaceflight status in 2020 with the first launch of astronauts from American soil since the space shuttle era.
And its Falcon 9 rocket finished the year accounting for 80% of the launches from Florida. The company’s next high-profile launch, slated for 6:11 a.m.