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SpaceX Hit With Worst Covid-19 Outbreak of Any Business in Los Angeles
The headquarters of SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, is currently experiencing an outbreak of covid-19 far worse than any other private business in the county, according to the L.A. Times and a tally from the L.A. County Public Health website. At least 132 SpaceX employees have recently tested positive for covid-19.
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Bezos Says He’ll Spend $2 Billion on a Lunar Lander in Exchange for a NASA Contract
Jeff Bezos — the world’s richest “astronaut” and sour grape — has written an open letter to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, saying Blue Origin will cover billions in NASA costs in exchange for a contract to build a lunar lander that will deliver astronauts to the Moon in 2024.
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NASA Selects SpaceX to Build Upcoming Lunar Lander
SpaceX has won a lucrative NASA contract to build the first lunar lander since the Apollo program. The announcement comes as a big surprise, as the Elon Musk-led company beat out a pair of promising competitors, including Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin.
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Stratolaunch, World’s Largest-Ever Plane By Wingspan, Successfully Takes Off On Maiden Flight
Stratolaunch, the world’s largest plane by wingspan and the brainchild of late Silicon Valley billionaire Paul Allen, finally took off at around 10:00 a.m. local time on Saturday for a two and a half hour inaugural flight, the Washington Post reported.