Space, the Not-so-Final Frontier

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Recently, private company SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, the largest-carrying rocket ever built that also costs relatively cheap. Cheap is obviously a relative term here. But anyway, Falcon Heavy is unique in so many ways. First of all, it is from a privately-owned company. You may think that SpaceX is publicly traded, but that's only Elon Musk's other companies like Tesla, which is also doing really well.


So anyway, let's talk about this recent test. Falcon Heavy launched with a two-hour delay, but the launch was still successful. It carried a light payload of Elon Musk's car with a figurine inside at the wheel. They had the radio playing, but that's not the most important part. The important thing is that it was actually very successful and didn't run into major problems. In fact, two of the three boosters were able to land successfully. SpaceX designed the boosters to land perfectly upright on the ground. Even NASA wasn't able to do that, which is actually kind of embarrassing. 

So what are some problems or fears? Well, is this going to make SpaceX too powerful? Will it dominate the "space market"? Possibly. If you haven't noticed, our world is getting more and more close to being dominated by large corporations. Heck, I'm pretty sure half of my articles have something to deal with big businesses.
He sure has some bold plans. Let's just see if they can work out successfully.

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