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SpaceX is turning space from an exclusive destination into a practical one. An affordable one. Launch costs used to be eye-watering. Falcon cut them dramatically. Starship is aiming to cut them again. Because every future space industry depends on the same thing: Making access to orbit so affordable that...

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