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Charley Babb


Starship is a 400-foot-tall, stainless steel, Mars rocket made by SpaceX. Photo by Steve Jurvetson.

The unavoidable politicization in modern space exploration

"I was fascinated by the company and dreamed of one day working there, helping to build that interplanetary future that it promised. But, as years passed, cracks began to show. While SpaceX has remained fairly apolitical and out of the spotlight, it became caught up in the absolute mess that was its founder, Elon Musk."