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Critics of NASA’s decade-long, $30 billion-plus investment in the Orion capsule and Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket often point to SpaceX’s Starship as an alternative, less-expensive transportation system for human deep-space travel. But the government-owned Orion-Space Launch System (SLS) has...
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