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Politics : The Elon Musk Presidency

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From: S. maltophilia1/21/2026 6:42:25 PM
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“We’re Too Close To The Debris”: Airplanes Dodge The Remains Of Exploding SpaceX Rockets
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Tue, Jan 20th 2026 08:16pm - Heather Vogell and Agnel Philip
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. There are additional (exceptional!) imagery in the original.



When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.

Each time SpaceX did a test run of Starship and its booster, dubbed Super Heavy, the megarocket’s flight path would take it soaring over busy Caribbean airspace before it reached the relative safety of the open...

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