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China’s first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1, will arrive in orbit at the Red Planet on Feb. 10, and the rover is scheduled to land in May. See photos of the Tianwen-1 mission here!

SpaceX’s Starship SN9 rocket launched on a high-altitude test flight but crashed and exploded during a landing attempt in South Texas Tuesday (Feb. 2).

SpaceX’s Starship SN9 vehicle may attempt its first launch today (Feb. 2). You can see views of SN9 and it successor SN10 here, courtesy of Spadre.com.

The FAA has granted a launch license for Starship SN9’s high-altitude test flight today (Feb. 2) which is designed to take the shiny silver vehicle about 6 miles into the Texas skies.

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No-one has visited the Moon since 1972. But with the advent of commercial human spaceflight, the urge to return is resurgent and generating a new space race.

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