Space industry year ahead: SpaceX's Mars rocket, tourism, and more billionaire battles

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If 2021 was the year of ostentatious displays of wealthy space tourists chartering one-off missions, 2022 promises to be yet another year solidifying the private sector's grip on modern space travel. Here's a look at what's to come.

New York If 2021 was the year of ostentatious displays of wealthy space tourists chartering one-off missions, 2022 promises to be yet another year solidifying the private sector's grip on modern space travel.

Big businesses are beginning to permeate every area of spaceflight, from the most spectacular private launches to the smallest detail. A modified version of Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant will even hitch a ride on a future NASA trip around the moon. More missions to space chartered by the ultra-rich are on the docket. Elon Musk's SpaceX is also planning to put its colossal 400-foot-tall Starship rocket — intended to eventually reach Mars — into Earth's orbit for the first time.

 

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sounds very ted turner actually

Instead of taking pictures from out of space of our planet, which is rapidly losing its bloom, imagine we would invest the same amount of money in preventing it from disappearing. That should be the real tech in 2022!

How about the immigrants that were deported by the cruelty and racial practices of ICE against Muslim immigrants,Im 58 yrs old lived in USA for 33 yrs paid tax & SS with USC Wife & 14yrs USC child,I never been at any danger to the public & I get no criminal records,please help!

Can they just stay up there?

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