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Blue Origin's third New Glenn mission marked a successful first reflight of its orbital-class booster but was marred by a critical upper stage failure, stranding its AST SpaceMobile payload. This mixed outcome impacts Blue Origin's reliability standing and crucial future missions.
NASA's Artemis 2 mission successfully concluded today with a triumphant splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, marking the first crewed trip around the moon since 1972. The four-astronaut crew returned after a 10-day odyssey, setting new human distance records and validating critical hardware for future lunar landings and the establishment of a permanent base.
Verdict For anyone with even a passing interest in spaceflight, the Ars Technica collection of favorite rocket launch experiences is a captivating read. Marking a century since Robert Goddard's pioneering liquid-fueled
