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Why Messy SpaceX and Blue Origin Launches Are Actually Good News

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Blue Origin's New Glenn and SpaceX's Starship rockets failed their first test flights this week .

The first stage of the New Glenn rocket crashed into the Atlantic Ocean , but the second stage was lost in a massive explosion eight minutes and 27 seconds into flight.

Rocket science has always been an exceedingly iterative process, one in which a whole lot of launches have to come to ruin before engineers get things right.

NASA has gotten largely out of the launch business, ceding that work to the private sector.

The closest thing the space agency has today to the Saturn 5 is the Space Launch System .

With 8.8 million pounds of thrust, the SLS is the most powerful rocket NASA has ever launched.

It has flown just once, uncrewed, in 2022 , costs over $2 billion per launch, and is not set to fly again until 2026 .

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