Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin launched their New Glenn rocket for the first time yesterday.
They're trying to re-land their boosters and use them again, so they can take on SpaceX. They got their payload into orbit, but lost the booster. They still said they were "thrilled" with the result.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX ALSO had a rocket launch yesterday, that ended with the opposite result.
They landed the booster just fine, but the Starship spacecraft exploded and was lost over the Caribbean.
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In Moon news: China wants to plant a flag on the Moon next year, and figured out how to make it flutter even with no wind.
They engineered a special flag that flutters when it interacts with electromagnetic fields.
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In other Moon news: The World Monuments Fund just listed the Moon as a threatened cultural site.
As we send more landers up and space tourism takes off, they want to start talking about how to preserve things like Neil Armstrong's boot print.
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