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SpaceX’s very big year: A 2020 filled with astronaut launches, Starship tests and more – Space.com
Elon Musk’s company averaged one launch every two weeks in 2020.
SpaceX
had a pretty good year.
Elon Musk’s company launched 26 missions in 2020, breaking its previous calendar-year record of 21, which was set in 2018. This year’s launches included SpaceX’s 100th successful space mission overall, as well as the 100th of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket
.
But the raw numbers tell only a tiny portion of the story. For example, two of SpaceX’s launches this year sent astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules
— the first…
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