Business of Space

SpaceX Is A Hard Company To Quit For The US Government

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft takes off in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 14.

Photographer: Aubrey Gemignani/NASA/Getty Images

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Howdy Earthlings, it’s Loren Grush in Austin. The dust seems to have settled from the Trump-Musk feud heard ’round the world, but it definitely shook a lot of people in the government, especially those at the Pentagon. But first...

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